1 Overview

This analysis is set up to assess how whole-genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing of known pollen samples performs, both on its own and relative to amplicon-based metabarcoding (with ITS2 and rbcL) in terms of:

  1. False negatives (i.e. true positives)—if a species is present in a sample, is that species detected?
  2. False positives—how many species that are not present in a sample are erroneously detected?
  3. Quantitative matching—what is the quantitative correspondence between the number of pollen grains going in to a sample and the number of sequence reads coming out?

These three questions form the basic structure of the analysis, which is paralleled by the structure of this file.

The samples that were sequenced with WGS were from constructed “mock community” pollen samples of known composition. We used the exact same DNA isolations as in Bell et al. 2019 Molecular Ecology. This analysis is largely (though not entirely) based on the analyses in that paper.

The sequenced pollen samples were constructed to vary in complexity in three dimensions; we assessed how sample complexity affected the qualitative outcomes (false positive and false negative reads):

  1. Question 1: species richness (1-9 species)
  2. Question 2: rarity (actual proportion of grains this taxon has in a sample; from roughly half & half to < 1% of the rarer type)
  3. Question 3: taxonomic relatedness (within genus to across broad clades in the seed plants)

1.1 version notes

This analysis file was modified from the previous file version to:

  • remove the Kraken simulations, as they were not providing any major insights in the manuscript
  • describe better and provide more context for the analysis, in tighter parallel to the manuscript
  • streamline the analyses and remove several unused analyses from the file
  • ensure that the false negative and false positive analyses were directly parallel to one another
  • update the approach used for quantitative matching (no longer using AIC as it was not statistically correct)

2 Analysis approach

2.1 non-independence of data

Because all analyses included non-independent data (multiple replicates of the same pollen mixtures; pollen from the same plant species occurring in multiple mixtures), all of our analyses were conducted with mixed-effects modeling, using mixture identity and species identity as crossed random effects (modeled as random intercepts).

2.2 comparing WGS to amplicon data

Across our outcomes, in comparing WGS and amplicon performance, we pooled WGS and amplicon results together into a single data table and conducted analyses with method (WGS vs. amplicon) as a fixed effect.

2.3 structure of analyses: false negatives and false positives

The response variables for our first two outcomes are binomial (yes / no) in structure. We use binomial-errors mixed-effects models for these analyses.

For our first outcome of false negatives, we thus need to record—for each species present in a pollen mixture—whether or not that species was detected in that sample. To do this, we set up a datafile with each species truly present within each sample as its own row, which we subsequently scored as 0 / 1, with a zero for species that were present in the sample but not present in sequencing reads (above the contamination threshold), and a one for species that were present in the sequencing reads above the threshold.

For our second outcome of false positives, we wished to assess the proportion of true vs. false positives. To do this, we aggregated the data to one row per sample replicate, and summed the read counts of true positives (combining all species truly present in a particular mix) and false positives in two separate columns.

2.4 structure of analyses: quantitative matching

To assess the quantitative accuracy of WGS sequencing for our constructed mixtures, we tested the correlation between the known proportion of pollen grains in a sample (explanatory variable) and the proportion of WGS sequencing reads (response variable).

Ideally, we would like for there to be a perfect 1:1 fit between pollen grains going in and sequence reads coming out. This means a linear response between the two, with an intercept of 0 and a slope of 1. One could make an argument that instead of using a linear model, a binomial-errors model would be more appropriate given that the response variable is indeed proportional counts (of sequence reads). Moreover, even with a binomial-errors model, it is possible to get the equivalent of a line with slope = 1 and intercept = 0.

We considered this issue in detail and decided that a linear model is better in this context. In particular, a binomial model could for example predict that for a given taxon, it will have a very very low detection probability until it reaches say ~80% of the pollen grains in the sample at which point the logistic curve could swing up sharply and after ~80% the detection probability could be very close to 1. If the data matched such a model, it would return both a very low \(p\)-value and a very high \(R^2\), even though it would not be giving us what we want. Therefore, we decided to stick with a linear model.

One alternative possibility (that we did not pursue) would be to specify the intercept (0) and slope (1) and see how well the data do at fitting that line. This could potentially work particularly well when comparing the amplicon and the WGS data.

3 Data import

Three groups of data sets to import:

  1. sample metadata
  2. WGS Kraken empirical data
  3. amplicon data

The metadata are the same for the WGS and amplicon data, as both were run from the exact same DNA extractions.

For the WGS Kraken data, Jamieson Botsch formatted these (25-Apr-2018) from the raw Kraken output to combine the two data sources (we sequenced WGS data both at Emory and at UGA), and to have the family / genus / species separated out into columns; see Shotgun_data_prep.Rmd. Unlike the QIIME Illumina data, we do not need to do any aggregation of read counts as this was done automatically by Kraken (nice touch); i.e. all read counts at the species level are also included in genus-level matches and so on. We do just a couple of steps of very basic / simple formatting with the data import here (removal of superfluous numeric column a the beginning of the data; removal of duplicate rows).

The amplicon data are represented by 7 data files: The first (amp_all) is already merged with the sample metadata and already formatted for false-negative analyses (with a separate row for each species within each sample). There are separate columns for the presence or absence of that taxon at three different taxonomic levels (species, genus, and family) and for each marker (ITS2 and rbcL).

This amp_all dataset, however, does not include data on false positives. Thus, the remaining six datafiles are there to provide data on how many of the hits were to true positives (known to be present in the sample) vs. false positives (not included in the sample). In contrast to amp_all, these are formatted as six separate files, one each for the two markers (ITS2 and rbcL) and three levels of taxonomic matching (species, genus, and family). The format of these files matches basically what comes from QIIME: taxa are the rows, and samples are the columns. We re-format these to the tidy format of having samples as rows later.

Across both the amplicon and the kraken data, one issue is that for different samples, matching the taxonomy at different levels leads to different numbers of rows. For example, we have two Populus species in some of the samples. For matching at the species level, that is two different rows. But for genus and family, it is just one row. There are some other samples that have two different genera in the same family (e.g., Poa and Zea, both in the Poaceae). Thus, these have to be either 1) stored as completely separate datafiles; or 2) stored in a single datafile (as in amp_all) but properly subset to not include duplicate rows for the same genus or family within samples. In this analysis we have split these out into separate files, which is probably not the best way to go; for the future, try to keep data together in a single data file and then subset that file for analyses.

krak.raw = read.csv("kraken.csv") # create 'krak.raw' that we can refer back to later
krak = krak.raw # create working copy of kraken data
mixes = read.csv("pollen-mixes-proportions.csv")
amp_its_family = read.csv("Amplicon_ITS_Family.csv")
amp_its_genus = read.csv("Amplicon_ITS_Genus.csv")
amp_its_species = read.csv("Amplicon_ITS_Species.csv")
amp_rbc_family = read.csv("Amplicon_rbcL_Family.csv")
amp_rbc_genus = read.csv("Amplicon_rbcL_Genus.csv")
amp_rbc_species = read.csv("Amplicon_rbcL_Species.csv")
amp_all = read.csv("Amplicon_all.csv")

# 'mixes' comes in with some rows duplicated (because in the spreadsheet, each was assessed with both ITS2 and with rbcL); fix this here:
mixes = unique(mixes)

# 'krak' comes with an extra numeric column at the beginning ('X'); delete
krak = krak[,-1]

# change name of 'krak' identifier columns
# identifier column is called 'mix.id' but it is very different from the 'mix.ID' column in the 'mixes' data; we will ultimately want to join by 'mix.ID'
names(krak)[1] = "sample.id"

# check them out to make sure we're all good:
# View(krak)
# View(mixes)

4 data formatting / setup

  1. Kraken data prep
    • filter to include only matches at family / genus / species taxonomic resolutions (not anything coarser, and no intermediate clades)
    • create new columns for mix.ID that matches the column in the sample (pollen-mixes-proportions.csv) data, and also replicate.ID for replicates within each mix
    • a couple of minor tweaks to make sure data are consistent etc.
  2. Combine Kraken and sample metadata
  3. Remove reads below contamination thresshold
  4. Match Kraken and sample data, qualitatively and quantitatively
  5. Format Kraken data for false positive analysis
  6. Combine amplicon and empirical Kraken data: false positives
  7. Combine amplicon and empirical Kraken data: false negatives

4.1 Kraken data prep

  1. filter by tax.cat column, including only species / genus / family levels
  2. create new column for mix.ID that matches the column in the sample metadata (pollen-mixes-proportions.csv)
  3. also create a new replicate.ID column (replicate samples of each mix.ID)
    • both of the above are challenging because the Emory and UGA data are formatted slightly differently from each other, and also those formats are different than the metadata; this involves parsing regular expressions from the single column of sample names
  4. finally, do some relatively minor tweaks for formatting etc.; e.g. capitalization of “C. illinoisensis”; formatting of sample numbers, etc.
# 1. filter out the reads to only include those at the family / genus / species levels
krak = filter(krak, tax == "F" | tax == "G" | tax == "S")

# 2. create new column for `mix.ID` that matches the column in the sample (`pollen-mixes-proportions.csv`) data
# this is a bit more involved... a primary issue is that Emory and UGA used different naming conventions for the samples

## MIX.ID
## FIRST ONLY FOR 'KRAK'

# first, create the column; fill in temporarily the first 6 characters in the 'sample.id' column
krak$mix.ID = substr(krak$sample.id, 1, 6)

# move the new column to be second in order (not at the end where it's hard to see)
krak = krak[, c(1, ncol(krak), 3:ncol(krak)-1)]

# Want to remove the 6th character if mix.id does not contain the word "mix" or contains 2 dashes. Only want six characters if the mix number is double digits.

krak$mix.ID = ifelse(!grepl("mix", krak$mix.ID) | str_count(krak$mix.ID, pattern="-")==2, substr(krak$mix.ID, 1, 5), krak$mix.ID)

# second, replace underscores and dashes in the temp 'mix.ID' with periods so that they match the 'mixes' data
krak$mix.ID = gsub("-", ".", krak$mix.ID)
krak$mix.ID = gsub("_", ".", krak$mix.ID)

  # fix capitalization for pecan ("c.ill"" should be "C.ill")
  krak$mix.ID = gsub("c.i", "C.i", krak$mix.ID)

# third, for the Emory mixes (different label), extract the mix from the text in the 'sample.id' column
# use 'str_extract' from the 'stringr' library (thank you tidyverse!) plus 'replace'
# (... took a while to figure this out, dang regular expressions...)
# then do some cleanup

  # extract strings and subset to only the relevant values  
  new.vals = str_extract(krak$sample.id, "mix_.*/")
  new.vals = new.vals[is.na(new.vals) == F]
  
  # replace old vals with new.vals
  krak$mix.ID = replace(krak$mix.ID, krak$mix.ID=="repla", new.vals)
  
  # cleanup
  krak$mix.ID = gsub("_", ".", krak$mix.ID)
  krak$mix.ID = gsub("/", "", krak$mix.ID)

# fourth, remove periods in between the text "mix" and the number 
krak$mix.ID = gsub("mix.", "mix", krak$mix.ID)

# 3. also create a new 'replicate.ID'; we will use this later to back-fill in the 'mixes' dataframe
  
## 'REP.ID'
# noticed a weird quirk of the data: in the "B.pap" samples, the "1" at the end of the 'sample.id' is cut off. It may not really matter, but by making it consistent it will help make there be fewer levels / potential complications when appending onto the 'mixes' data
krak$sample.id = as.character(krak$sample.id)
indexy = str_sub(krak$sample.id, -1, -1)==0 # identifies which are missing the '1' at the end
krak$sample.id = replace(krak$sample.id, indexy, paste(krak$sample.id[indexy],"1", sep = ""))

# first, create the column; fill in the relevant characters from the 'sample.id' column
krak$rep.ID = substr(krak$sample.id, nchar(as.character(krak$sample.id))-7, nchar(as.character(krak$sample.id))-4) # 
# switch underscore to period
krak$rep.ID = gsub("_", ".", krak$rep.ID)

# move the new column to be second in order (not at the end where it's hard to see)
krak = krak[, c(1:2, ncol(krak), 4:ncol(krak)-1)]

## Sample number
sample_sep <- colsplit(krak$sample.id, "_", c("ID", "sample", "L", "R", "Num"))
krak$sample <- ifelse(startsWith(sample_sep$L,"S"), sample_sep$L, ifelse(startsWith(sample_sep$L,"1") | startsWith(sample_sep$L,"2"), sample_sep$R, sample_sep$sample))

##Create list of unique combinations of mix ID, sample number, and rep ID to properly merge kraken with mixes data at later point
krak_uniqueid <- data.frame(krak$mix.ID, krak$rep.ID, krak$sample)
krak_uniqueid <- unique.data.frame(krak_uniqueid)

# clean up
rm(sample_sep, new.vals, indexy)

4.2 combine Kraken & sample metadata

new aggregated datasheeet, based on sample metadata, but which matches sample data back to the Kraken data so we can run analyses about probability of matching (both qualitative and quantitative). In particular this is taking account of sample “replicates” (including some that are not true replicates, but rather forward vs. reverse reads); also different Illumina lanes in the Emory Genome Center data.

  1. Merge the unique krak IDs with mixes to subset the sample data to only the samples in the kraken dataset
  2. Create a dataset for analysis of false negatives by only including taxa that are present in sample data
    • for this one, do it separately at each taxonomic level that we are assessing, i.e. species, genus, family
  3. Create a dataset for analysis of false positives by including all taxa in kraken data

use ‘mix.ID’ as the variable to combine by…

## Merge sample and replicate IDs with mixes data
krak_mixes <- merge(mixes,krak_uniqueid, by.x="mix.ID", by.y="krak.mix.ID")

# create separate datasets for family, genus, and species level, both including and excluding false positives
# excluding false positives (focus on true positives / false negatives):
truepos.krak.family =  merge(krak_mixes, filter(krak, tax == "F"), by = c("mix.ID", "family"), all.x=T)
truepos.krak.genus =  merge(krak_mixes, filter(krak, tax == "G"), by = c("mix.ID", "genus"), all.x=T)
truepos.krak.species =  merge(krak_mixes, filter(krak, tax == "S"), by = c("mix.ID", "species"), all.x=T)

# including false positives:
all.krak.family =  merge(krak_mixes, filter(krak, tax == "F"), by = c("mix.ID", "family"), all.x = T, all.y = T)
all.krak.genus =  merge(krak_mixes, filter(krak, tax == "G"), by = c("mix.ID", "genus"), all.x = T, all.y = T)
all.krak.species =  merge(krak_mixes, filter(krak, tax == "S"), by = c("mix.ID", "species"), all.x = T, all.y = T)

# clean up:
rm(krak_uniqueid)

4.3 remove Kraken reads below the contamination threshold

  1. remove reads below the isolation / PCR negative control thresholds
    1. ideally, would base these on negative controls for a given Illumina run (two separate runs here, at UGA and Emory Genome center; we will need to keep those separate); but unfortunately there are not negative controls for the Emory Genome Center data; use the UGA thresholds for all the data (definitely not ideal)
    2. this entails removing rows with \(k\)-mer counts below the threshold
    3. in the Illumina QIIME amplicon data, we did this separately for (entire) taxa below the threshold level, and for reads, because of the way that the data were formatted in a taxon-by-sample matrix; the Kraken output is already formatted in a way that is closer to tidy so we only need to do this step once here.
  2. remove negative control rows (once the above is completed) so they don’t interfere with the analysis
# Establish threshold for maximum number of reads in the negative controls
maxy = max(krak$hits[krak$mix.ID=="negat"])

# Identify rows that fall below this threshold for false negative analysis
truepos.indexy_family = which(truepos.krak.family$hits <= maxy)
truepos.indexy_genus = which(truepos.krak.genus$hits <= maxy)
truepos.indexy_species = which(truepos.krak.species$hits <= maxy)

# No rows for false negative analysis with read level below threshold - can continue with analysis 

# Identify rows that fall below thresshold for false positive analysis
all.indexy_family = which(all.krak.family$hits <= maxy)
all.indexy_genus = which(all.krak.genus$hits <= maxy)
all.indexy_species = which(all.krak.species$hits <= maxy)

# Remove these rows
all.krak.family = all.krak.family[-all.indexy_family,]
all.krak.genus = all.krak.genus[-all.indexy_genus,]
all.krak.species = all.krak.species[-all.indexy_species,]

# Remove negative control rows
all.krak.family = filter(all.krak.family, mix.ID!="negat")
all.krak.genus = filter(all.krak.genus, mix.ID!="negat")
all.krak.species = filter(all.krak.species, mix.ID!="negat")

# Clean up
rm(maxy, all.indexy_family, all.indexy_genus, all.indexy_species, truepos.indexy_family, truepos.indexy_genus, truepos.indexy_species)

4.4 Kraken data: format for false negative and quantitative analyses

(will do false positives in next step; the data formatting at this step is relatively straightforward)

  1. Convert NAs in true positives / false negatives to 0s
  2. Convert the “percentage hits” to a proportion - which will be the response variable in the quantitative models
  3. Create a qualitative variable that equals 1 if that taxon was detected in the analysis (i.e. if proportion is greater than 0), and 0 if not detected (i.e. if proportion = 0).
# create quantitative variable by simply dividing the percentage hits (perc.hit) by 100
truepos.krak.family$quant.family = truepos.krak.family$perc.hit/100
truepos.krak.genus$quant.genus = truepos.krak.genus$perc.hit/100
truepos.krak.species$quant.species = truepos.krak.species$perc.hit/100

# for taxa that were not detected, NAs are currently present. Need to change this to 0 for quantitative variable before running analysis.
truepos.krak.family$quant.family = ifelse(is.na(truepos.krak.family$quant.family), 0, truepos.krak.family$quant.family)
truepos.krak.genus$quant.genus = ifelse(is.na(truepos.krak.genus$quant.genus), 0, truepos.krak.genus$quant.genus)
truepos.krak.species$quant.species = ifelse(is.na(truepos.krak.species$quant.species), 0, truepos.krak.species$quant.species)

#Create qualitative variable based on quantitative variable
truepos.krak.family$qual.family = ifelse(truepos.krak.family$quant.family > 0, 1, 0)
truepos.krak.genus$qual.genus = ifelse(truepos.krak.genus$quant.genus > 0, 1, 0)
truepos.krak.species$qual.species = ifelse(truepos.krak.species$quant.species > 0, 1, 0)

4.5 combine amplicon and Kraken data for false negative analysis

Using the kraken data formatted for true positive/false negative analysis (“truepos.krak”), rbind with amplicon data.

#Add "K-" to beginning of sample number of kraken dataset and add variable "source" to indicate that data is from kraken dataset
truepos.krak.family$sample <- paste("K-", truepos.krak.family$krak.sample, sep="")
truepos.krak.genus$sample <- paste("K-", truepos.krak.genus$krak.sample, sep="")
truepos.krak.species$sample <- paste("K-", truepos.krak.species$krak.sample, sep="")

#Add "source" variable to indicate if data is WGS or amplicon
truepos.krak.family$source = "krak"
truepos.krak.genus$source = "krak"
truepos.krak.species$source = "krak"
amp_all$source = "amp"

#Concatenate WGS and amplicon data using mapply so that mismatching variable names of the amplicon data will be ignored
# 'fn' appended at the end of the variable names signifies "false negatives"

krakamp_rbc_family_fn <- as.data.frame(mapply(c, truepos.krak.family[,c("mix.ID", "family", "sample", "qual.family", "source")], amp_all[,c("mix.ID","family","sample", "qual.family.rbcL", "source")]))

krakamp_its_family_fn <- as.data.frame(mapply(c, truepos.krak.family[,c("mix.ID", "family", "sample", "qual.family", "source")], amp_all[,c("mix.ID","family","sample", "qual.family.ITS", "source")]))

krakamp_rbc_genus_fn <- as.data.frame(mapply(c, truepos.krak.genus[,c("mix.ID", "genus", "sample", "qual.genus", "source")], amp_all[,c("mix.ID","genus","sample", "qual.genus.rbcL", "source")]))

krakamp_its_genus_fn <- as.data.frame(mapply(c, truepos.krak.genus[,c("mix.ID", "genus", "sample", "qual.genus", "source")], amp_all[,c("mix.ID","genus","sample", "qual.genus.ITS", "source")]))

krakamp_rbc_species_fn <- as.data.frame(mapply(c, truepos.krak.species[,c("mix.ID", "species", "sample", "qual.species", "source")], amp_all[,c("mix.ID","species","sample", "qual.species.rbcL", "source")]))

krakamp_its_species_fn <- as.data.frame(mapply(c, truepos.krak.species[,c("mix.ID", "species", "sample", "qual.species", "source")], amp_all[,c("mix.ID","species","sample", "qual.species.ITS", "source")]))

4.6 format kraken data for false positive analysis

To analyze false positives in kraken data, need to have aggregated counts of the “true positive” and “false positive” reads by sample. These will be our “success” and “failure” numbers in a binomial mixed model.

  1. If the merged sample data is N/A, this indicates the taxa is a false positive. Based on N/A values, create a variable indicating if taxa is true or false positive.
  2. Remove taxa that are in sample data but not kraken data (false negatives) - not considered for this analysis
    • while perhaps counterintuitive, need to do this because in this analysis we are using counts of “true positive” reads vs. “false positive” reads, i.e. only using reads that exist, not reads that should have existed but do not. Those are dealt with in our false negative analysis.
  3. Add “K” to the sample names to distinguish from the samples in the amplicon data
  4. Aggregate the counts per sample ID by “true positive” and “false positive”

In addition (new as of 18-April-2019): 1. removed Zea mays and mix5 samples (don’t match with metadata) 1. matched false positive data with metadata so that sample complexity analyses can be run down the line 1. one consideration is that since we are aggregating all of the reads for a particular sample into one row, we have to figure out how to deal with rarity / commonness of taxa within a sample. + to do that, we use the minimum % of any taxon within the sample as a measure of rarity

# For false positive analysis, create variable indicating if taxa if "false positive" or "true positive"
all.krak.family$type <- ifelse(is.na(all.krak.family$question.1), "false_pos", "true_pos")
all.krak.genus$type <- ifelse(is.na(all.krak.genus$question.1), "false_pos", "true_pos")
all.krak.species$type <- ifelse(is.na(all.krak.species$question.1), "false_pos", "true_pos")

# If hits = N/A, indicates a false negative (in sample data but not in Kraken data). Remove because we are not considering for this analysis
# (for the future, probably easier with `filter` in `dplyr` package)
all.krak.family <- all.krak.family[-which(is.na(all.krak.family$sample.id)),]
all.krak.genus <- all.krak.genus[-which(is.na(all.krak.genus$sample.id)),]
all.krak.species <- all.krak.species[-which(is.na(all.krak.species$sample.id)),]

# Add "K_" to sample name
all.krak.family$sample <- paste("K_",all.krak.family$sample, sep="")
all.krak.genus$sample <- paste("K_",all.krak.genus$sample, sep="")
all.krak.species$sample <- paste("K_",all.krak.species$sample, sep="")

# Aggregate counts by mix.ID, sample.ID, and type
agg.krak.family <- all.krak.family %>%
          select(mix.ID, family, rep.ID, sample, type, hits) %>%
          group_by(mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, type) %>%
          summarize(total_hits = sum(hits))
agg.krak.genus <- all.krak.genus %>%
          select(mix.ID, genus, rep.ID, sample, type, hits) %>%
          group_by(mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, type) %>%
          summarize(total_hits = sum(hits))
agg.krak.species <- all.krak.species %>%
          select(mix.ID, species, rep.ID, sample, type, hits) %>%
          group_by(mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, type) %>%
          summarize(total_hits = sum(hits))

# Convert to wide format with one column for true positive hits and one column for false positive hits
agg.krak.family <- spread(agg.krak.family, key=type, value=total_hits)
agg.krak.genus <- spread(agg.krak.genus, key=type, value=total_hits)
agg.krak.species <- spread(agg.krak.species, key=type, value=total_hits)

# If positives are N/A, set to equal 0
agg.krak.family$true_pos = ifelse(is.na(agg.krak.family$true_pos),0, agg.krak.family$true_pos)
agg.krak.genus$true_pos = ifelse(is.na(agg.krak.genus$true_pos),0, agg.krak.genus$true_pos)
agg.krak.species$true_pos = ifelse(is.na(agg.krak.species$true_pos),0, agg.krak.species$true_pos)
agg.krak.family$false_pos = ifelse(is.na(agg.krak.family$false_pos),0, agg.krak.family$false_pos)
agg.krak.genus$false_pos = ifelse(is.na(agg.krak.genus$false_pos),0, agg.krak.genus$false_pos)
agg.krak.species$false_pos = ifelse(is.na(agg.krak.species$false_pos),0, agg.krak.species$false_pos)

# as set up currently, the false positive datasets ('agg.krak.family', 'agg.krak.genus', 'agg.krak.species')
# do not have the needed components to replicate the analysis we used for false negatives
# specifically, we need to have data on the facets of samples complexity:
    # species richness, taxonomic relatedness, and rarity
# and we also need the data subset component ('sub' vs. 'all')

# first, remove Zea mays and mix5 (which had Zea in it):
agg.krak.family = filter(agg.krak.family, mix.ID != "Z.may" & mix.ID != "mix5")
agg.krak.genus = filter(agg.krak.genus, mix.ID != "Z.may" & mix.ID != "mix5")
agg.krak.species = filter(agg.krak.species, mix.ID != "Z.may" & mix.ID != "mix5")

# now, add the needed metadata

# don't want the aggregated data to be repeated for each taxon in a mix
# and that is the way the 'mixes' dataframe is set up
# in addition, to assess rarity, different taxa have different proportions
# thus, summarize 'mixes' to have the *minimum* value of 'pollen.grain.proportion' for each mix

mixy = mixes 
mixy = mixy %>% select(-family, -genus, -species) %>% group_by(mix.ID) %>% summarize_all(min)

# now put them together
# via a merge of the false positive datasets with the 'mixes' (sample metadata)
# (didn't use 'left_join' because of conversion of factors to character)
agg.krak.family = merge(agg.krak.family, mixy, by = "mix.ID")
agg.krak.genus = merge(agg.krak.genus, mixy, by = "mix.ID")
agg.krak.species = merge(agg.krak.species, mixy, by = "mix.ID")

# clean up... or don't
# don't remove 'mixy' just yet as we'll employ it again below for the false-positive amplicon data

4.7 false positives: format amplicon data

This part is one of the more challenging components of the formatting. It is based on the six amplicon data files (one for each marker and taxonomic level), formatted as QIIME matrices such that taxa comprise the rows and samples comprise the columns.

we need to:

  • melt each matrix into a single row for each taxon / mix / sample combination, reporting the number of reads for each
    • remove combos for which there were zero reads (not strictly necessary since we will later just add up all the true and false positives, but makes everything more compact)
    • also a good time to remove mix #5 and also Zea samples from the amplicon data for consistencey
  • merge each melted dataframe with with the sample metadata
  • classify reads (“hits”) into false positives and false negatives, on a replicate-by-replicate basis
  • aggregate (sum) false positive and false negative reads for each sample and replicate
  • merge sample metadata in with the amplicon data
#Create list of amplicon data frames
amp_data <- list(amp_its_family, amp_its_genus, amp_its_species, amp_rbc_family, amp_rbc_genus, amp_rbc_species)

# create a function for *melting* the amplicon QIIME matrices, with a row for each...
# ...taxon / mix / sample combination, reporting the number of reads for each
amp_convert <- lapply(amp_data, function(x){
  #convert first column name to "taxa"
  names(x)[1] <- "taxa"
  #convert from wide to long format
  x <- melt(x, id.vars="taxa", value.name="hits")
  #separate mix ID and sample ID
  x[,4:5] <- colsplit(x$variable, "_", c("mix.ID", "sample"))
  #remove variable "id"
  x <- x[,-2]
  # remove any rows for which the "hits" count == 0
  # there were no reads, so we don't need to include them
  # also a good point to remove Zea mays single-species samples
  # and also mix #5 which includes Zea
  x <- filter(x, hits!=0 & mix.ID != "Z.mays" & mix.ID != "mix5")
})

# apply the melting function to each of the 6 datasets
# convert them into data frames at the same time
# (in the future, better to do this with `lapply` or similar)
amp_its_family <- as.data.frame(amp_convert[1])
amp_its_genus <- as.data.frame(amp_convert[2])
amp_its_species <- as.data.frame(amp_convert[3])
amp_rbc_family <- as.data.frame(amp_convert[4])
amp_rbc_genus <- as.data.frame(amp_convert[5])
amp_rbc_species <- as.data.frame(amp_convert[6])

# merge with sample metadata (`mixes`) by mixID and sampleID
amp_its_family_mix <- merge(amp_its_family, mixes, by.x=c("mix.ID", "taxa"), by.y=c("mix.ID", "family"), all.x=T)
amp_its_genus_mix <- merge(amp_its_genus, mixes, by.x=c("mix.ID", "taxa"), by.y=c("mix.ID", "genus"), all.x=T)
amp_its_species_mix <- merge(amp_its_species, mixes, by.x=c("mix.ID", "taxa"), by.y=c("mix.ID", "species"), all.x=T)
amp_rbc_family_mix <- merge(amp_rbc_family, mixes, by.x=c("mix.ID", "taxa"), by.y=c("mix.ID", "family"), all.x=T)
amp_rbc_genus_mix <- merge(amp_rbc_genus, mixes, by.x=c("mix.ID", "taxa"), by.y=c("mix.ID", "genus"), all.x=T)
amp_rbc_species_mix <- merge(amp_rbc_species, mixes, by.x=c("mix.ID", "taxa"), by.y=c("mix.ID", "species"), all.x=T)

#Rows with mixes variables that are "NA" are false positive taxa. Create a data frame that indicates if row is true positive or false positive
amp_its_family_mix$type <- ifelse(is.na(amp_its_family_mix$question.1), "false_pos", "true_pos")
amp_its_genus_mix$type <- ifelse(is.na(amp_its_genus_mix$question.1), "false_pos", "true_pos")
amp_its_species_mix$type <- ifelse(is.na(amp_its_species_mix$question.1), "false_pos", "true_pos")
amp_rbc_family_mix$type <- ifelse(is.na(amp_rbc_family_mix$question.1), "false_pos", "true_pos")
amp_rbc_genus_mix$type <- ifelse(is.na(amp_rbc_genus_mix$question.1), "false_pos", "true_pos")
amp_rbc_species_mix$type <- ifelse(is.na(amp_rbc_species_mix$question.1), "false_pos", "true_pos")

#New list of mixed datasets
amp_mixed <- list(amp_its_family_mix, amp_its_genus_mix, amp_its_species_mix, amp_rbc_family_mix, amp_rbc_genus_mix, amp_rbc_species_mix)

#Apply function to list
amp_summed <- lapply(amp_mixed, function(x){
  #summarize number of hits by mix.ID, sample, and type
  x <- x %>%
          select(mix.ID, taxa, hits, sample, type) %>%
          group_by(mix.ID, sample, type) %>%
          summarize(total_hits = sum(as.numeric(hits)))
  #Convert to wide format with one column for true positive hits and one column for false positive hits
  #x <- reshape(x, idvar="sample", timevar="type", direction="wide")
})

amp_its_family_summ <- as.data.frame(amp_summed[1])
amp_its_genus_summ <- as.data.frame(amp_summed[2])
amp_its_species_summ <- as.data.frame(amp_summed[3])
amp_rbc_family_summ <- as.data.frame(amp_summed[4])
amp_rbc_genus_summ <- as.data.frame(amp_summed[5])
amp_rbc_species_summ <- as.data.frame(amp_summed[6])

# Add "A" to beginning of sample ID - couldn't get this to work in the lapply function
amp_its_family_summ$sample <- paste("A_", amp_its_family_summ$sample, sep="")
amp_its_genus_summ$sample <- paste("A_", amp_its_genus_summ$sample, sep="")
amp_its_species_summ$sample <- paste("A_", amp_its_species_summ$sample, sep="")
amp_rbc_family_summ$sample <- paste("A_", amp_rbc_family_summ$sample, sep="")
amp_rbc_genus_summ$sample <- paste("A_", amp_rbc_genus_summ$sample, sep="")
amp_rbc_species_summ$sample <- paste("A_", amp_rbc_species_summ$sample, sep="")

# Convert to wide format with one column for true positive hits and one column for false positive hits - couldn't get this to work in the lapply function
amp_its_family_reshape <- spread(amp_its_family_summ, key=type, value=total_hits)
amp_its_genus_reshape <- spread(amp_its_genus_summ, key=type, value=total_hits)
amp_its_species_reshape <- spread(amp_its_species_summ, key=type, value=total_hits)
amp_rbc_family_reshape <- spread(amp_rbc_family_summ, key=type, value=total_hits)
amp_rbc_genus_reshape <- spread(amp_rbc_genus_summ, key=type, value=total_hits)
amp_rbc_species_reshape <- spread(amp_rbc_species_summ, key=type, value=total_hits)

#If positives are N/A, set to equal 0
amp_its_family_reshape$true_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_its_family_reshape$true_pos),0, amp_its_family_reshape$true_pos)
amp_its_genus_reshape$true_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_its_genus_reshape$true_pos),0, amp_its_genus_reshape$true_pos)
amp_its_species_reshape$true_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_its_species_reshape$true_pos),0, amp_its_species_reshape$true_pos)
amp_rbc_family_reshape$true_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_rbc_family_reshape$true_pos),0, amp_rbc_family_reshape$true_pos)
amp_rbc_genus_reshape$true_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_rbc_genus_reshape$true_pos),0, amp_rbc_genus_reshape$true_pos)
amp_rbc_species_reshape$true_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_rbc_species_reshape$true_pos),0, amp_rbc_species_reshape$true_pos)

amp_its_family_reshape$false_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_its_family_reshape$false_pos),0, amp_its_family_reshape$false_pos)
amp_its_genus_reshape$false_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_its_genus_reshape$false_pos),0, amp_its_genus_reshape$false_pos)
amp_its_species_reshape$false_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_its_species_reshape$false_pos),0, amp_its_species_reshape$false_pos)
amp_rbc_family_reshape$false_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_rbc_family_reshape$false_pos),0, amp_rbc_family_reshape$false_pos)
amp_rbc_genus_reshape$false_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_rbc_genus_reshape$false_pos),0, amp_rbc_genus_reshape$false_pos)
amp_rbc_species_reshape$false_pos = ifelse(is.na(amp_rbc_species_reshape$false_pos),0, amp_rbc_species_reshape$false_pos)

# Add rep.ID = 1 for amplicon data to match kraken data
# (probably could have done this in the first function above)
amp_its_family_reshape$rep.ID = 1
amp_its_genus_reshape$rep.ID = 1
amp_its_species_reshape$rep.ID = 1
amp_rbc_family_reshape$rep.ID = 1
amp_rbc_genus_reshape$rep.ID = 1
amp_rbc_species_reshape$rep.ID = 1

# Move to third column to match Kraken data
# (better done with `dplyr` in the future)
amp_its_family_reshape = amp_its_family_reshape[,c(1:2,5,3:4)]
amp_its_genus_reshape = amp_its_genus_reshape[,c(1:2,5,3:4)]
amp_its_species_reshape = amp_its_species_reshape[,c(1:2,5,3:4)]
amp_rbc_family_reshape = amp_rbc_family_reshape[,c(1:2,5,3:4)]
amp_rbc_genus_reshape = amp_rbc_genus_reshape[,c(1:2,5,3:4)]
amp_rbc_species_reshape = amp_rbc_species_reshape[,c(1:2,5,3:4)]

# merge these data with the sample metadata
# use 'mixy' from above which is the sample metadata summarized by sample
# (not by taxon within sample, as for 'mixes')
amp_its_family_reshape = merge(amp_its_family_reshape, mixy, by = "mix.ID")
amp_its_genus_reshape = merge(amp_its_genus_reshape, mixy, by = "mix.ID")
amp_its_species_reshape = merge(amp_its_species_reshape, mixy, by = "mix.ID")
amp_rbc_family_reshape = merge(amp_rbc_family_reshape, mixy, by = "mix.ID")
amp_rbc_genus_reshape = merge(amp_rbc_genus_reshape, mixy, by = "mix.ID")
amp_rbc_species_reshape = merge(amp_rbc_species_reshape, mixy, by = "mix.ID")

# clean up
rm(mixy)

4.8 combine amplicon and Kraken data for false positive analysis

We need to combine the WGS with amplicon data by creating a dataframe showing the number of true positive and the number of false positive reads by source, mix ID, and sample ID.

# Add column "source" to amplicon and kraken data
amp_its_family_reshape$source = "amp"
amp_its_genus_reshape$source = "amp"
amp_its_species_reshape$source = "amp"
amp_rbc_family_reshape$source = "amp"
amp_rbc_genus_reshape$source = "amp"
amp_rbc_species_reshape$source = "amp"

agg.krak.family$source = "krak"
agg.krak.genus$source = "krak"
agg.krak.species$source = "krak"

# Merge kraken and amplicon data
krakamp_its_family = rbind(subset(amp_its_family_reshape, mix.ID %in% agg.krak.family$mix.ID), as.data.frame(agg.krak.family))
krakamp_its_genus = rbind(subset(amp_its_genus_reshape, mix.ID %in% agg.krak.genus$mix.ID), as.data.frame(agg.krak.genus))
krakamp_its_species = rbind(subset(amp_its_species_reshape, mix.ID %in% agg.krak.species$mix.ID), as.data.frame(agg.krak.species))
krakamp_rbc_family = rbind(subset(amp_rbc_family_reshape, mix.ID %in% agg.krak.family$mix.ID), as.data.frame(agg.krak.family))
krakamp_rbc_genus = rbind(subset(amp_rbc_genus_reshape, mix.ID %in% agg.krak.genus$mix.ID), as.data.frame(agg.krak.genus))
krakamp_rbc_species = rbind(subset(amp_rbc_species_reshape, mix.ID %in% agg.krak.species$mix.ID), as.data.frame(agg.krak.species))

5 Analysis

  1. false negatives
    • WGS data alone, as a function of sample complexity
    • WGS data compared to amplicon data
  2. false positives
    • WGS data alone, as a function of sample complexity
    • WGS data compared to amplicon data
  3. quantitative matching
    • WGS data alone (sample input compared to sample output)
    • WGS data compared to amplicon data

5.1 false negatives

To assess if species richness, relatedness, and pollen grain proportion have a significant effect on the ability of the empirical WGS to qualitatively detect the presence/absence of a species, use a binomial mixed effects model with species as a random effect and rep.ID nested in sample nested in mix.ID as a random effect.

For consistency, take out Zea mays and format data tables to have the same name as those in the mixed amplicon analysis.

5.1.1 sample complexity: false negatives

  • the analysis approach here is based on binomial-errors mixed-effects models
  • the fixed effects are sample complexity; we are assessing one facet of sample complexity per model
      1. Question 1: species richness (1-9 species)
    • Question 2: rarity (actual proportion of grains this taxon has in a sample; from roughly half & half to < 1% of the rarer type)
    • Question 3: taxonomic relatedness (within genus to across broad clades in the seed plants)
  • we separately assessed models that considered different subsets of the data:
    • just the mixes specifically set up for each of the questions above (smaller subset of the data)
    • all of the mixes (thus more data)
  • we also ran separate models for each of the taxonomic levels:
    • family, genus, and species
  • the random effects are nested, with the highest level as mix.ID (i.e. the identity of the pollen mixture); then sample replicate within each mix and finally rep.ID (forward / reverse read within a sample, or Illumina lane for samples split across lanes)
    • we modeled these as random intercepts
    • the random effects were fixed and equivalent for all models
  • there are 3 facets of sample complexity \(\times\) 2 data subsets \(\times\) 3 taxonomic levels = 18 total models
    • set this up with a nested for loop; there are almost certainly cleaner and more elegant ways to do this
#Take out Zea
truepos.krak.family = filter(truepos.krak.family, genus.x!= "Zea") 
truepos.krak.genus = filter(truepos.krak.genus, genus!="Zea")
truepos.krak.species = filter(truepos.krak.species, genus.x!="Zea")

# set up the three factors by which we are running the models
taxon = c("species", "genus", "family")
datasubset = c("sub", "all") # whether we are using the designated subset of data designed for the question, or all data
question = c("spp.rich", "relatedness", "pollen.grain.proportion")

# calculate total number of models
total = length(taxon)*length(datasubset)*length(question)

# first set up a table for the results with a number of entries equal to the 'total' variable above (18):
results.table = data.frame(question = rep(NA,total), taxon  = rep(NA,total), data.subset  = rep(NA,total), model.name = rep(NA,total), p.val  = rep(1.000001,total), n  = rep(9999,total), warning.msg = rep(NA,total))

# keep track of which row of the table to record in:
tracker = 1

# EXAMPLE FORMULA:
# Krak.Q1.species.all = glmer(qual.species.rbcL ~ spp.rich + (1|mix.ID/sample/rep.ID) + (1|species), family = binomial, data = truepos.krak.species, control = glmerControl(optimizer="bobyqa"))

# 'for' loop:

for(q in 1:3) { # 'question': response variables for Q1 / Q2 / Q3
    for(k in 1:3){ # 'taxon': species, genus, family
      for(l in 1:2) { # 'datasubset': sub or all
        # first, name the analysis:
        namer = paste("Krak.Q", q, ".", taxon[k], ".", datasubset[l], sep = "")
        # second, set which taxonomic data to use:
        data.to.use = paste("truepos.krak.", taxon[k], sep = "")
        # third, set up the data subset
        subster = paste("data.sub = filter(", data.to.use, ", question.1 == ", q, " | question.2 == ", q, " | question.3 == ",q, ")", sep = "")
        eval(parse(text = subster)) # probably not the most efficient thing ever... 
        # fourth, set whether or not data subset is used (vs. all data)
        if(datasubset[l]=="sub") {data.to.use = "data.sub"} # i.e., doesn't change if all data are to be used
        # fifth, set up mixed-effects model: 
        mixed = paste(namer, " = suppressWarnings(glmer(qual.", taxon[k],
          " ~ ",  question[q], " + (1|mix.ID/krak.sample/krak.rep.ID) + (1|", taxon[k], "), family = binomial, 
          data = ", data.to.use, ", control = glmerControl(optimizer=\"bobyqa\")))", sep = "")
        # sixth, evaluate the mixed-effects model
        eval(parse(text = mixed))
            # # eighth, print summary of model [SKIP FOR NOW]
            # summarizer = paste("print(summary(", namer, "))", sep = "")
            # eval(parse(text = summarizer)) # print summary of the mixed-effects model
        
        ## extract p-value
        # (this would probably be easier using the 'broom.mixed' package?)
        # example: coef(summary(Q3.genus.ITS.all))[2,4]
        pvaller = paste("pval <- coef(summary(", namer, "))[2,4]", sep = "")
        eval(parse(text = pvaller))
        
        # extract convergence failures
        converger = paste(namer, "@optinfo$conv$lme4$code", sep = "")
        converg = eval(parse(text = converger))
        converg.return = ifelse(length(converg)==1, "ERROR!!", "")
        
        # record results in table
        results.table[tracker,1] = question[q]
        results.table[tracker,2] = taxon[k]
        results.table[tracker,3] = datasubset[l]
        results.table[tracker,4] = namer
        results.table[tracker,5] = pval
        results.table[tracker,6] = nrow(eval(parse(text = data.to.use)))
        results.table[tracker,7] = converg.return
        
        # advance tracker
        tracker = tracker + 1
      }
    }
  }
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## Warning in vcov.merMod(object, use.hessian = use.hessian): variance-covariance matrix computed from finite-difference Hessian is
## not positive definite or contains NA values: falling back to var-cov estimated from RX
## Warning in vcov.merMod(object, correlation = correlation, sigm = sig): variance-covariance matrix computed from finite-difference Hessian is
## not positive definite or contains NA values: falling back to var-cov estimated from RX
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## Warning in vcov.merMod(object, use.hessian = use.hessian): variance-covariance matrix computed from finite-difference Hessian is
## not positive definite or contains NA values: falling back to var-cov estimated from RX

## Warning in vcov.merMod(object, use.hessian = use.hessian): variance-covariance matrix computed from finite-difference Hessian is
## not positive definite or contains NA values: falling back to var-cov estimated from RX
## Warning in vcov.merMod(object, use.hessian = use.hessian): variance-covariance matrix computed from finite-difference Hessian is
## not positive definite or contains NA values: falling back to var-cov estimated from RX
## Warning in vcov.merMod(object, correlation = correlation, sigm = sig): variance-covariance matrix computed from finite-difference Hessian is
## not positive definite or contains NA values: falling back to var-cov estimated from RX
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
# display results table
# note that the 'kable' function is part of the 'knitr' package and `kable_styling` is from the `kableExtra` package 
kable(results.table) %>% 
  kable_styling(bootstrap_options = "striped", full_width = F)
question taxon data.subset model.name p.val n warning.msg
spp.rich species sub Krak.Q1.species.sub 0.0000000 116
spp.rich species all Krak.Q1.species.all 0.0003044 162
spp.rich genus sub Krak.Q1.genus.sub 0.0000015 122
spp.rich genus all Krak.Q1.genus.all 0.0000000 168 ERROR!!
spp.rich family sub Krak.Q1.family.sub 0.0000000 150 ERROR!!
spp.rich family all Krak.Q1.family.all 0.0000000 210 ERROR!!
relatedness species sub Krak.Q2.species.sub 0.9683069 38
relatedness species all Krak.Q2.species.all 0.0000000 162
relatedness genus sub Krak.Q2.genus.sub 0.9682583 38
relatedness genus all Krak.Q2.genus.all 0.0000015 168
relatedness family sub Krak.Q2.family.sub 0.0577688 50
relatedness family all Krak.Q2.family.all 0.0000345 210
pollen.grain.proportion species sub Krak.Q3.species.sub 0.9999929 26 ERROR!!
pollen.grain.proportion species all Krak.Q3.species.all 0.0000111 162
pollen.grain.proportion genus sub Krak.Q3.genus.sub 0.9999929 26 ERROR!!
pollen.grain.proportion genus all Krak.Q3.genus.all 0.0000000 168 ERROR!!
pollen.grain.proportion family sub Krak.Q3.family.sub 0.9999956 38 ERROR!!
pollen.grain.proportion family all Krak.Q3.family.all 0.0000000 210

For the empirical data, species richness has a significant effect on qualitative detection at the species level (in both the subsetted data and full data set) and at the genus level in the subsetted data, but the model gives errors at the genus level using the full dataset and at the family level.

Species relatedness has a significant effect on qualitative detection with the full dataset (highly significant - all p-values <0.0001), but not with the subsetted dataset (\(p\) = 0.97 for species and genus level, \(p\) = 0.06 for family level). Not sure if this makes sense…

Pollen grain proportion has a significant effect on qualitative detection at the species level with the full dataset and at the family level with the full dataset. The other tests gave errors.

5.1.2 Amplicon vs. Shotgun comparison: false negatives

This analysis uses binomial mixed models to assess if using amplicon vs. WGS has an effect on the ability to qualitatively detect true positives vs. false negatives. This analysis is similar the qualitative mixed models to assess the effect of species richness, pollen grain proportion, etc. on the ability to qualitatively detect the correct taxa, but instead using “source” as the (sole) fixed effect. #### by marker (rbcL vs ITS2)—Amplicon vs. Shotgun false negatives

taxon = c("species", "genus", "family")
marker = c("its", "rbc")


# first set up a table for the results:
rowz = length(taxon)*length(marker)

krakamp.fn.results.table = data.frame(taxon  = rep(NA,rowz), marker  = rep(NA,rowz), model.name = rep(NA,rowz), p.val  = rep(1.000001,rowz), n  = rep(9999,rowz), warning.msg = rep(NA,rowz))

# keep track of which row of the table to record in:
tracker = 1

# # EXAMPLE FORMULA
# its.family = glmer(qual.family ~ source + (1|mix.ID/sample) + (1|family), family = binomial, data = krakamp_its_family_fn, control = glmerControl(optimizer="bobyqa"))

# response variables relating to each of the three questions (column names in data)

for(q in 1:2) { # 'marker': its or rbc
    for(k in 1:3){ # 'taxon': species, genus, family
        # first, name the analysis (i.e. name the result object):
        namer = paste(marker[q], ".", taxon[k], sep = "")
        
        # second, set which taxonomic data to use:
        data.to.use = paste("krakamp_", marker[q], "_", taxon[k],"_fn", sep = "")
        
        # third, set up mixed-effects model: 
        mixed = paste(namer, " = suppressWarnings(glmer(qual.", taxon[k],
          " ~ source + (1|mix.ID/sample) + (1|", taxon[k], "), family = binomial, 
          data = ", data.to.use, ", control = glmerControl(optimizer=\"bobyqa\")))", sep = "")
        
        # fourth, evaluate the mixed-effects model
        eval(parse(text = mixed))
            #fifth, print summary of model [SKIP FOR NOW]
            #summarizer = paste("print(summary(", namer, "))", sep = "")
            #eval(parse(text = summarizer)) # print summary of the mixed-effects model
        
        # fifth, extract the results
        ## extract p-value
        # example: coef(summary(its.family))[2,4]
        pvaller = paste("pval <- coef(summary(", namer, "))[2,4]", sep = "")
        eval(parse(text = pvaller))
        
        # extract convergence failures
        converger = paste(namer, "@optinfo$conv$lme4$code", sep = "")
        converg = eval(parse(text = converger))
        converg.return = ifelse(length(converg)==1, "ERROR!!", "")
        
        # record results in table
        krakamp.fn.results.table[tracker,1] = taxon[k]
        krakamp.fn.results.table[tracker,2] = marker[q]
        krakamp.fn.results.table[tracker,3] = namer
        krakamp.fn.results.table[tracker,4] = pval
        krakamp.fn.results.table[tracker,5] = nrow(eval(parse(text = data.to.use)))
        krakamp.fn.results.table[tracker,6] = converg.return
        
        # advance tracker
        tracker = tracker + 1
      }
    }
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
# display results table
# note that the 'kable' function is part of the 'knitr' package and `kable_styling` is from the `kableExtra` package 
kable(krakamp.fn.results.table) %>% 
  kable_styling(bootstrap_options = "striped", full_width = F)
taxon marker model.name p.val n warning.msg
species its its.species 0.4661678 461
genus its its.genus 0.0084596 467
family its its.family 0.7358638 509
species rbc rbc.species 0.0004913 461
genus rbc rbc.genus 0.0017134 467
family rbc rbc.family 0.0000000 509

When ITS was used as a marker in the amplicon data, the amplicon data did not behave significantly better or worse than the WGS data at the species and family level. However, at the genus level (estimate = -1.15), the negative estimate and low p-value suggests that using ITS sequencing was more accurate for detecting true positives than WGS.

In contrast, when rbcL was used as a marker in the amplicon data, the amplicon data detected fewer true positives at the species (estimate = 1.19) and genus (estimate = 1.04) levels than the WGS data. However, the amplicon data detected more true positives at the family level (estimate = -26.774) than the WGS data.

5.1.2.1 markers combined—Amplicon vs. Shotgun false negatives

This is a repeat of the analysis above, but with ITS and rbcL combined

#Create new qualitative variable in amplicon dataset that equals 1 if ITS and/or rbcL equals 1, 0 if else

amp_all$qual.family = ifelse(amp_all$qual.family.ITS == 1 | amp_all$qual.family.rbcL == 1, 1, 0)
amp_all$qual.genus = ifelse(amp_all$qual.genus.ITS == 1 | amp_all$qual.genus.rbcL == 1, 1, 0)
amp_all$qual.species = ifelse(amp_all$qual.species.ITS == 1 | amp_all$qual.species.rbcL == 1, 1, 0)

#Combine kraken and amplicon data
krakamp_family_fn <- rbind(truepos.krak.family[,c("mix.ID", "family", "sample", "qual.family", "source")], amp_all[,c("mix.ID","family","sample", "qual.family", "source")])

krakamp_genus_fn <- rbind(truepos.krak.genus[,c("mix.ID", "genus", "sample", "qual.genus", "source")], amp_all[,c("mix.ID","genus","sample", "qual.genus", "source")])

krakamp_species_fn <- rbind(truepos.krak.species[,c("mix.ID", "species", "sample", "qual.species", "source")], amp_all[,c("mix.ID","species","sample", "qual.species", "source")])


taxon = c("species", "genus", "family")

# first set up a table for the results:
# I will set this up with 18 entries
krakamp.fn.results.combined = data.frame(taxon  = rep(NA,3), model.name = rep(NA,3), p.val  = rep(1.000001,3), n  = rep(9999,3), warning.msg = rep(NA,3))

# keep track of which row of the table to record in:
tracker = 1

# # EXAMPLE FORMULA
# its.family = glmer(qual.family ~ source + (1|mix.ID/sample) + (1|family), family = binomial, data = krakamp_family_fn, control = glmerControl(optimizer="bobyqa"))

# response variables relating to each of the three questions (column names in data)

    for(k in 1:3){ # 'taxon': species, genus, family
        # first, name the analysis:
        namer = taxon[k]
        
        # second, set which taxonomic data to use:
        data.to.use = paste("krakamp_", taxon[k],"_fn", sep = "")
        
        # third, set up mixed-effects model: 
        mixed = paste(namer, " = suppressWarnings(glmer(qual.", taxon[k],
          " ~ source + (1|mix.ID/sample) + (1|", taxon[k], "), family = binomial, 
          data = ", data.to.use, ", control = glmerControl(optimizer=\"bobyqa\")))", sep = "")
        # fourth, evaluate the mixed-effects model
        eval(parse(text = mixed))

        # fifth, extract model information
        ## extract p-value
        # example: coef(summary(its.family))[2,4]
        pvaller = paste("pval <- coef(summary(", namer, "))[2,4]", sep = "")
        eval(parse(text = pvaller))
        
        # extract convergence failures
        converger = paste(namer, "@optinfo$conv$lme4$code", sep = "")
        converg = eval(parse(text = converger))
        converg.return = ifelse(length(converg)==1, "ERROR!!", "")
        
        # record results in table
        krakamp.fn.results.combined[tracker,1] = taxon[k]
        krakamp.fn.results.combined[tracker,2] = namer
        krakamp.fn.results.combined[tracker,3] = pval
        krakamp.fn.results.combined[tracker,4] = nrow(eval(parse(text = data.to.use)))
        krakamp.fn.results.combined[tracker,5] = converg.return
        
        # advance tracker
        tracker = tracker + 1
      }

# display results table
# note that the 'kable' function is part of the 'knitr' package and `kable_styling` is from the `kableExtra` package 
kable(krakamp.fn.results.combined) %>% 
  kable_styling(bootstrap_options = "striped", full_width = F)
taxon model.name p.val n warning.msg
species species 0.0339795 417
genus genus 0.0000720 423
family family 0.0000000 465

After combining rbcL and ITS2, where taxa were determined as present if they were present in rbcL OR ITS2, an amplicon-based approach performed better than kraken at the species level (estimate = -0.948, \(p\) = 0.034), genus level (estimate = -30.28, \(p\) < 0.00001), and family level (estimate = -68.21, \(p\) < 0.00001).

5.2 false positives

5.2.1 sample complexity: false positives

this analysis has the same structure as for the false negatives analysis of sample complexity, again examining 3 taxonomic levels (family / genus / species) for three dimensions of sample complexity (species richness / taxonomic relatedness / rarity), each with two datasets (the subsample specifically designed for the sample complexity component of interest and the entire dataset).

Some difference from the false negatives analysis:

  • the response variable needs to change
    • formerly (for false positives) it was a 0/1 column which had info on whether or not each taxon within a mixture was present or not
    • in this analysis, the response variable is two columns, the count of true positive reads and the count of false positive reads, which are bound together with cbind
  • the random effect for taxon is removed, since data are not aggregated taxonomically (instead they are aggregated by sample, i.e. replicate within each mix)
  • since the data are aggregated, for pollen grain proportion the minimum proportion (i.e. the proportion of the smallest quantity of pollen in any given mix) was used as the explanatory variable
# set up the three factors by which we are running the models
taxon = c("species", "genus", "family")
datasubset = c("sub", "all") # whether we are using the designated subset of data designed for the question, or all data
question = c("spp.rich", "relatedness", "pollen.grain.proportion")

# calculate total number of models
total = length(taxon)*length(datasubset)*length(question)

# first set up a table for the results with a number of entries equal to the 'total' variable above (18):
results.table.falsepos = data.frame(question = rep(NA,total), taxon  = rep(NA,total), data.subset  = rep(NA,total), model.name = rep(NA,total), p.val  = rep(1.000001,total), n  = rep(9999,total), warning.msg = rep(NA,total))

# keep track of which row of the table to record in:
tracker = 1

# EXAMPLE FORMULA:
# Krak.Q1.species.all = glmer(qual.species.rbcL ~ spp.rich + (1|mix.ID/sample/rep.ID) + (1|species), family = binomial, data = agg.krak.species, control = glmerControl(optimizer="bobyqa"))

# 'for' loop:

for(q in 1:3) { # 'question': response variables for Q1 / Q2 / Q3
  for(k in 1:3){ # 'taxon': species, genus, family
    for(l in 1:2) { # 'datasubset': sub or all
      # first, name the analysis:
      namer = paste("Krak.falsepos.Q", q, ".", taxon[k], ".", datasubset[l], sep = "")
      # second, set which taxonomic data to use:
      data.to.use = paste("agg.krak.", taxon[k], sep = "")
      # third, set up the data subset
      subster = paste("data.sub = filter(", data.to.use, ", question.1 == ", q, " | question.2 == ", q, " | question.3 == ",q, ")", sep = "")
      eval(parse(text = subster)) # probably not the most efficient thing ever... 
      # fourth, set whether or not data subset is used (vs. all data)
      if(datasubset[l]=="sub") {data.to.use = "data.sub"} # i.e., doesn't change if all data are to be used
      # fifth, set up mixed-effects model: 
      mixed = paste(namer, " = suppressWarnings(glmer(cbind(false_pos, true_pos) ~ ",  question[q], " + (1|mix.ID/sample/rep.ID), family = binomial, 
                    data = ", data.to.use, ", control = glmerControl(optimizer=\"bobyqa\")))", sep = "")
      # sixth, evaluate the mixed-effects model
      eval(parse(text = mixed))
      # # eighth, print summary of model [SKIP FOR NOW]
      # summarizer = paste("print(summary(", namer, "))", sep = "")
      # eval(parse(text = summarizer)) # print summary of the mixed-effects model
      
      ## extract p-value
      # (this would probably be easier using the 'broom.mixed' package?)
      # example: coef(summary(Q3.genus.ITS.all))[2,4]
      pvaller = paste("pval <- coef(summary(", namer, "))[2,4]", sep = "")
      eval(parse(text = pvaller))
      
      # extract convergence failures
      converger = paste(namer, "@optinfo$conv$lme4$code", sep = "")
      converg = eval(parse(text = converger))
      converg.return = ifelse(length(converg)==1, "ERROR!!", "")
      
      # record results in table
      results.table.falsepos[tracker,1] = question[q]
      results.table.falsepos[tracker,2] = taxon[k]
      results.table.falsepos[tracker,3] = datasubset[l]
      results.table.falsepos[tracker,4] = namer
      results.table.falsepos[tracker,5] = pval
      results.table.falsepos[tracker,6] = nrow(eval(parse(text = data.to.use)))
      results.table.falsepos[tracker,7] = converg.return
      
      # advance tracker
      tracker = tracker + 1
    }
  }
}
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
# display results table
# note that the 'kable' function is part of the 'knitr' package and `kable_styling` is from the `kableExtra` package 
kable(results.table.falsepos) %>% 
  kable_styling(bootstrap_options = "striped", full_width = F)
question taxon data.subset model.name p.val n warning.msg
spp.rich species sub Krak.falsepos.Q1.species.sub 0.5063667 18 ERROR!!
spp.rich species all Krak.falsepos.Q1.species.all 0.2073121 40 ERROR!!
spp.rich genus sub Krak.falsepos.Q1.genus.sub 0.0596295 18 ERROR!!
spp.rich genus all Krak.falsepos.Q1.genus.all 0.9102420 40 ERROR!!
spp.rich family sub Krak.falsepos.Q1.family.sub 0.3577358 18 ERROR!!
spp.rich family all Krak.falsepos.Q1.family.all 0.6334370 40
relatedness species sub Krak.falsepos.Q2.species.sub 0.0000008 10 ERROR!!
relatedness species all Krak.falsepos.Q2.species.all 0.0284940 40 ERROR!!
relatedness genus sub Krak.falsepos.Q2.genus.sub 0.0000008 10 ERROR!!
relatedness genus all Krak.falsepos.Q2.genus.all 0.9439122 40 ERROR!!
relatedness family sub Krak.falsepos.Q2.family.sub 0.0000000 10
relatedness family all Krak.falsepos.Q2.family.all 0.3276324 40 ERROR!!
pollen.grain.proportion species sub Krak.falsepos.Q3.species.sub 0.0000000 6
pollen.grain.proportion species all Krak.falsepos.Q3.species.all 0.0175230 40 ERROR!!
pollen.grain.proportion genus sub Krak.falsepos.Q3.genus.sub 0.0000000 6
pollen.grain.proportion genus all Krak.falsepos.Q3.genus.all 0.9905812 40 ERROR!!
pollen.grain.proportion family sub Krak.falsepos.Q3.family.sub 0.0000000 6
pollen.grain.proportion family all Krak.falsepos.Q3.family.all 0.2064090 40

Unfortunately, most (8/12) of the false positive analyses had errors. Three of the four that did not have errors showed a statistically significant relationship between sample complexity and the proportion of false positive reads (i.e. compared to true positives). These were for relatedness (one result) and pollen grain proportion (three results). We did not see an effect for species richness. Specifically:

  • for species richness, at the family level, and considering all samples, there was no statistically significant effect of richness on the proportion of false positive reads
  • for relatedness, again at the family level, but this time considering only the subset we set up to compare relatedness, relatedness was significantly related to the proportion of false positive reads. We will have to go into the plots to see the directionality of this effect
  • for pollen grain proportion, at the species, genus, and family levels—but only for the subset of samples we set up to examine relatedness in each of those cases—pollen grain proportion was significantly related to the proportion of false positive reads. Again, we will have to go into the plots to see the directionality of this effect

5.2.2 Amplicon vs. Shotgun comparison, false positives

This analysis uses binomial mixed models to assess if using amplicon vs. WGS approaches return different proportions of false positive results (relative to true positives).

5.2.2.1 Amplicon markers considered separately (rbcL and ITS2)

First we will split out the analysis by amplicon marker (rbcL vs. ITS2) and by taxonomic level of identification (family / genus / species); next we will combine both amplicons but continue to assess at all three taxonomic levels.

taxon = c("species", "genus", "family")
marker = c("its", "rbc")

# set up a data frame for the results: 
# I will set this up with 6 rows (3 taxonomy levels x 2 markers)
rowz = length(taxon)*length(marker)
krakamp.results.table = data.frame(taxon  = rep(NA,rowz), marker  = rep(NA,rowz), p.val  = rep(1.000001,rowz), n  = rep(9999,rowz), warning.msg = rep(NA,rowz))

# keep track of which row of the table to record in:
tracker = 1

# # EXAMPLE FORMULA
# glmer(cbind(true_pos,false_pos) ~ source + (1|mix.ID/sample/rep.ID), family = binomial, data = krakamp_its_species, control = glmerControl(optimizer="bobyqa"))


for(k in 1:3) { # 'taxon': species, genus, family
    for(l in 1:2){ # 'marker': ITS2 or rbcL
        # first, name the analysis:
        namer = paste(taxon[k], ".", marker[l], sep = "")
        
        # second, set which taxonomic data to use:
        data.to.use = paste("krakamp_", marker[l], "_", taxon[k], sep = "")
        
        # third, set up mixed-effects model: 
        mixed = paste(namer, " = suppressWarnings(glmer(cbind(true_pos,false_pos) ~ source + (1|mix.ID/sample/rep.ID), family = binomial, data =", data.to.use, ", control = glmerControl(optimizer=\"bobyqa\")))", sep = "")
        
        # fourth, evaluate the mixed-effects model
        eval(parse(text = mixed))
        
        ## extract p-value
        pvaller = paste("pval <- coef(summary(", namer, "))[2,4]", sep = "")
        eval(parse(text = pvaller))
        
        # extract convergence failures
        converger = paste(namer, "@optinfo$conv$lme4$code", sep = "")
        converg = eval(parse(text = converger))
        converg.return = ifelse(length(converg)==1, "ERROR!!", "")
        
        # record results in table
        krakamp.results.table[tracker,1] = taxon[k]
        krakamp.results.table[tracker,2] = marker[l]
        krakamp.results.table[tracker,3] = pval
        krakamp.results.table[tracker,4] = nrow(eval(parse(text = data.to.use)))
        krakamp.results.table[tracker,5] = converg.return
        
        # advance tracker
        tracker = tracker + 1
      }
    }
  
# display results table
# note that the 'kable' function is part of the 'knitr' package, which I required at the very top of this document. 
kable(krakamp.results.table) %>% 
  kable_styling(bootstrap_options = "striped", full_width = F)
taxon marker p.val n warning.msg
species its 0.0012605 77
species rbc 0.0000003 77
genus its 0.0000000 77
genus rbc 0.0000019 77
family its 0.0000000 77
family rbc 0.0000000 77

In each case, the amplicon-based approach produced significantly fewer false positive reads compared to the shotgun / kraken approach, irrespective of the marker used and the taxonomic level. Previously, most of the models gave errors, but something in re-doing the data formatting (perhaps removal of Zea?) set these analyses up better.

5.2.2.2 amplicon markers combined

for this analysis we need to format the data a little differently; the formatted amplicon data are in different data frames based on the marker (ITS2 vs. rbcL). Need to combine those two to generate a single amplicon data frame; this has to happen at each taxonomic level. While seemingly easy with rbind, we have to take the additional step of aggregating for each mix.id and sample.id the two amplicon markers (add the false positives and false negatives together). Still, this is very straightforward with dplyr.

# first combine the two amplicon datasets, aggregating counts for the same mix and sample IDs
# this has to happen at each taxonomic level
ampkrak.family = rbind(amp_its_family_reshape, amp_rbc_family_reshape) %>% group_by(mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, source) %>% summarize(false_pos = sum(false_pos), true_pos = sum(true_pos))

ampkrak.genus = rbind(amp_its_genus_reshape, amp_rbc_genus_reshape) %>% group_by(mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, source) %>% summarize(false_pos = sum(false_pos), true_pos = sum(true_pos))

ampkrak.species = rbind(amp_its_species_reshape, amp_rbc_species_reshape) %>% group_by(mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, source) %>% summarize(false_pos = sum(false_pos), true_pos = sum(true_pos))

# then combine amplicon data with kraken data
ampkrak.family = rbind(data.frame(ampkrak.family), data.frame(select(agg.krak.family, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, source, false_pos, true_pos)))
ampkrak.genus = rbind(data.frame(ampkrak.genus), data.frame(select(agg.krak.genus, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, source, false_pos, true_pos)))
ampkrak.species = rbind(data.frame(ampkrak.species), data.frame(select(agg.krak.species, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, source, false_pos, true_pos)))

# set up a data frame for the results with 3 rows (by taxonomic level)
krakamp.results.table = data.frame(taxon  = rep(NA,3), p.val  = rep(1.000001,3), n  = rep(9999,3), warning.msg = rep(NA,3))

# keep track of which row of the table to record in:
tracker = 1

# # EXAMPLE FORMULA
# glmer(cbind(true_pos,false_pos) ~ source + (1|mix.ID/sample/rep.ID), family = binomial, data = krakamp_its_species, control = glmerControl(optimizer="bobyqa"))


for(k in 1:3) { # 'taxon': species, genus, family
        # first, name the analysis:
        namer = paste("krakamp.GLMM", taxon[k], sep = ".")
        
        # second, set which taxonomic data to use:
        data.to.use = paste("ampkrak", taxon[k], sep = ".")
        
        # third, set up mixed-effects model: 
        mixed = paste(namer, " = suppressWarnings(glmer(cbind(true_pos,false_pos) ~ source + (1|mix.ID/sample/rep.ID), family = binomial, data = ", data.to.use, ", control = glmerControl(optimizer=\"bobyqa\")))", sep = "")
        
        # fourth, evaluate the mixed-effects model
        eval(parse(text = mixed))
        
        ## extract p-value
        pvaller = paste("pval <- coef(summary(", namer, "))[2,4]", sep = "")
        eval(parse(text = pvaller))
        
        # extract convergence failures
        converger = paste(namer, "@optinfo$conv$lme4$code", sep = "")
        converg = eval(parse(text = converger))
        converg.return = ifelse(length(converg)==1, "ERROR!!", "")
        
        # record results in table
        krakamp.results.table[tracker,1] = taxon[k]
        # krakamp.results.table[tracker,2] = marker[l]
        krakamp.results.table[tracker,2] = pval
        krakamp.results.table[tracker,3] = nrow(eval(parse(text = data.to.use)))
        krakamp.results.table[tracker,4] = converg.return
        
        # advance tracker
        tracker = tracker + 1
    }

  
# display results table
# note that the 'kable' function is part of the 'knitr' package, which I required at the very top of this document. 
kable(krakamp.results.table) %>% 
  kable_styling(bootstrap_options = "striped", full_width = F)
taxon p.val n warning.msg
species 0 129
genus 0 129
family 0 129

Consistently with the previous analysis (in which results were split out by marker), the amplicon-based approach performs better than the shotgun / kraken based approach.

Here—with markers combined—we also found that all three taxonomic levels, we see statistically significant differences between the amplicon and the shotgun data. All three of the coefficients are negative (as we move from amplicon to kraken), indicating that the “successes” (true positives) were reduced as we moved in that direction, i.e. that amplicon performance was better than kraken performance in terms of signal-to-noise ratio. In other words, WGS kraken results had a higher proportion of false positives.

5.3 quantitative matching

To assess if pollen grain proportion is correlated to read proportion in the empirical WGS data, use mixed-effects models with mix.ID and species as random effects. Using the same dataset as for the false negatives analysis, i.e. data are formatted to have each taxon (truly present) within each sample representing a row.

There are two analyses:

  1. WGS data only: quantitative matching
  2. amplicon + WGS data: comparison on which gives us better quantitative matching

5.3.1 WGS data only: quantitative matching

Here the question is: do we see a statistical relationship between the proportion of pollen grains input into a sample and the proportion of read counts that are output? As described in the Overview section at the beginning, we do this with a linear mixed-effects model as we are looking for a linear relationship between the input pollen grain proportions, and the proportions of output sample reads. A logistic relationship, as would likely be predicted with a binomial-errors model, is not helpful to an end-user here even though the data are ultimately binomial in nature.

# linear mixed-effects model

# ultimately want 3 analyses: {species, genus, and family}
# species
quant.species = lmer(quant.species ~ pollen.grain.proportion + (1|mix.ID/rep.ID) + (1|species), data = truepos.krak.species)

# genus
quant.genus = lmer(quant.genus ~ pollen.grain.proportion + (1|mix.ID/rep.ID) + (1|genus), data = truepos.krak.genus)
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
#family
quant.family = lmer(quant.family ~ pollen.grain.proportion + (1|mix.ID/rep.ID) + (1|family), data = truepos.krak.family)
## boundary (singular) fit: see ?isSingular
#=========================================
# r-squared calculation at the family level
r2.family = r2beta(quant.family)

# r-squared calculation at the genus level
r2.genus = r2beta(quant.genus)

# r-squared calculation at the species level
r2.species = r2beta(quant.species)

#Merge the slope ("Estimate"), p-value ("Pr...t..") from the mixed models with the r-squared value for each test

coefs_quant.family <- cbind((data.frame(coef(summary(quant.family)))["pollen.grain.proportion",c("Estimate","Pr...t..")]), r2.family[2,6]) 

coefs_quant.genus <- cbind((data.frame(coef(summary(quant.genus)))["pollen.grain.proportion",c("Estimate","Pr...t..")]), r2.genus[2,6]) 

coefs_quant.species <- cbind((data.frame(coef(summary(quant.species)))["pollen.grain.proportion",c("Estimate","Pr...t..")]), r2.species[2,6]) 

#Rename row names and column names 
row.names(coefs_quant.family) = "Family"
row.names(coefs_quant.genus) = "Genus"
row.names(coefs_quant.species) = "Species"

colnames(coefs_quant.family) = c("Slope", "p-value", "R2")
colnames(coefs_quant.genus) = c("Slope", "p-value", "R2")
colnames(coefs_quant.species) = c("Slope", "p-value", "R2")

#Merge summary of coefficients into one dataset
coefs_summ <- rbind(coefs_quant.family, coefs_quant.genus, coefs_quant.species)

#Display table of summarized coefficients
kable(coefs_summ) %>% 
  kable_styling(bootstrap_options = "striped", full_width = F)
Slope p-value R2
Family -0.2206349 0.0000004 0.9268312
Genus 0.0232417 0.2443684 0.3172647
Species -0.0387063 0.0000000 0.9528018

NEED TO REVISIT THE INTERPRETATION BELOW–I ADDED IN A NESTED RANDOM EFFECT FOR rep.ID AND IT CHANGED THE RESULTS…

Pollen grain proportion was significantly related to read proportion at the family (\(R^2\) = 0.81, \(p\) < 0.000001), genus (\(R^2\) = 0.58, \(p\) < 0.000001), and species level (\(R^2\) = 0.77, \(p\) <0.000001)

5.3.2 Amplicon vs. WGS: quantitative matching

The basic idea here is to assess if WGS vs. amplicon data has better quantitative matching. This is at first glance more challenging than for the qualitative metrics, in which the directionality of the data tells the story completely: more true positives = good, and more false positives = bad. But for the quantitative analyses, having a higher proportion of matches than there are input proportion of pollen grains is bad, and having a lower proportion of matches than the input proportion of pollen grains is also bad.

One idea is to just directly compare the WGS and amplicon results in terms of \(R^2\) values for the linear models. Higher \(R^2\) values are better. This is a somewhat qualitative, however: e.g. while \(R^2 = 0.77\) is better than \(R^2 = 0.70\), are those two values meaningfullly different? For example, it would be easy for a couple of values that were strongly off from the prediction to greatly alter the \(R^2\) values.

Alternatively, and more quantitative, is to analyze the residuals of the input vs. output quantitative model, and see if there are differences in the mean absolute values of the residuals between WGS and amplicon approaches. Here, directionality has a meaning: smaller absolute residual values are better. We could do this with two different approaches: first is just to fit a linear model to the data (as we have done above); second is to fit a linear model with intercept = 0 and slope = 1, and use the residuals from that model.

The latter approach here seems better—ultimately we want the output proportion of sequence reads to match as closely to possible the input proportion of pollen grains (i.e. a linear relationship with intercept = 0 and slope = 1). To find the residuals of this relationship, we don’t need to run a model at all; because the expected value of the output proportion is the input proportion, we can just calculate the absolute value of (input - output) in a new column. Then we can use that residual value as the response variable in a new linear mixed-effects model, with the sole fixed effect being the data source (i.e. amplicon vs. WGS), but allowing us to use the random intercepts we specified in previous models (mix identity and taxonomic identity).

While that is very straightforward, the one thing we need to do is to get the amplicon data formatted in a similar way to the WGS data for this analysis (with a percentage of hits for each taxon truly present in a sample, as well as the proportion of pollen grains of that taxon in that sample). For this, we will combine our original amp_all data with e.g. truepos.krak.species (and the corresponding files for genus and species)

5.3.2.1 data prep for quant matching amplicon vs. WGS

# first get a `rep.ID` variable into the `amp_all` dataset
# so that there is a parallel with the kraken data
amp_all$rep.ID = 1

# pull out only the relevant variables from the kraken data, for easier merging down the line:
quant.krak.family = select(truepos.krak.family, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, family, pollen.grain.proportion, quant.family, source)
quant.krak.genus = select(truepos.krak.genus, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, genus, pollen.grain.proportion, quant.genus, source)
quant.krak.species = select(truepos.krak.species, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, species, pollen.grain.proportion, quant.species, source)

# issue: for some of the rows, the `rep.ID` = NA and these rows appear to be repeated, even though the response variable (the quantiative proportion of that taxon in the sample) is *exactly* the same among the two rows. fix:
# first use `unique` to remove redundant rows:
quant.krak.family = unique(quant.krak.family)
quant.krak.genus = unique(quant.krak.genus)
quant.krak.species = unique(quant.krak.species)

# then change NA values to 1 so that they are used in the analysis:
indexy = which(is.na(quant.krak.family$rep.ID))
  quant.krak.family$rep.ID[indexy] = 1
indexy = which(is.na(quant.krak.genus$rep.ID))
  quant.krak.genus$rep.ID[indexy] = 1
indexy = which(is.na(quant.krak.species$rep.ID))
  quant.krak.species$rep.ID[indexy] = 1

# amplicon: pull out relevant variables, for easier `rbind` down the line:
quant.amp.family.its = select(amp_all, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, family, pollen.grain.proportion, quant.family = quant.family.ITS, source)
quant.amp.family.rbcl = select(amp_all, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, family, pollen.grain.proportion, quant.family = quant.family.rbcL, source)
quant.amp.genus.its = select(amp_all, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, genus, pollen.grain.proportion, quant.genus = quant.genus.ITS, source)
quant.amp.genus.rbcl = select(amp_all, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, genus, pollen.grain.proportion, quant.genus = quant.genus.rbcL, source)
quant.amp.species.its = select(amp_all, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, species, pollen.grain.proportion, quant.species = quant.species.ITS, source)
quant.amp.species.rbcl = select(amp_all, mix.ID, sample, rep.ID, species, pollen.grain.proportion, quant.species = quant.species.rbcL, source)

# rbind 'em together: 
quant.krakamp.family.its = rbind(quant.amp.family.its, quant.krak.family)
quant.krakamp.family.rbcl = rbind(quant.amp.family.rbcl, quant.krak.family)
quant.krakamp.genus.its = rbind(quant.amp.genus.its, quant.krak.genus)
quant.krakamp.genus.rbcl = rbind(quant.amp.genus.rbcl, quant.krak.genus)
quant.krakamp.species.its = rbind(quant.amp.species.its, quant.krak.species)
quant.krakamp.species.rbcl = rbind(quant.amp.species.rbcl, quant.krak.species)

5.3.2.2 analysis for quant matching amplicon vs. WGS

  • calculate residuals (absolute value of difference between input pollen grain proportion and output proportion of sequence reads), as a new column
  • then run a linear mixed-effects model, with source as the sole fixed effect
# calculate residuals
quant.krakamp.family.its = quant.krakamp.family.its %>% mutate(resid = abs(pollen.grain.proportion - quant.family))
quant.krakamp.family.rbcl = quant.krakamp.family.rbcl %>% mutate(resid = abs(pollen.grain.proportion - quant.family))
quant.krakamp.genus.its = quant.krakamp.genus.its %>% mutate(resid = abs(pollen.grain.proportion - quant.genus))
quant.krakamp.genus.rbcl = quant.krakamp.genus.rbcl %>% mutate(resid = abs(pollen.grain.proportion - quant.genus))
quant.krakamp.species.its = quant.krakamp.species.its %>% mutate(resid = abs(pollen.grain.proportion - quant.species))
quant.krakamp.species.rbcl = quant.krakamp.species.rbcl %>% mutate(resid = abs(pollen.grain.proportion - quant.species))

# run models:
quant.krakamp.family.its.lmer = lmer(resid ~ source + (1|mix.ID), data = quant.krakamp.family.its)
quant.krakamp.family.rbcl.lmer = lmer(resid ~ source + (1|mix.ID), data = quant.krakamp.family.rbcl)
quant.krakamp.genus.its.lmer = lmer(resid ~ source + (1|mix.ID), data = quant.krakamp.genus.its)
quant.krakamp.genus.rbcl.lmer = lmer(resid ~ source + (1|mix.ID), data = quant.krakamp.genus.rbcl)
quant.krakamp.species.its.lmer = lmer(resid ~ source + (1|mix.ID), data = quant.krakamp.species.its)
quant.krakamp.species.rbcl.lmer = lmer(resid ~ source + (1|mix.ID), data = quant.krakamp.species.rbcl)

# build a table of results, using `broom.mixed`
quant.krakamp.table = tidy(quant.krakamp.family.its.lmer)[2,c(3,4,8)]
quant.krakamp.table = rbind(quant.krakamp.table, tidy(quant.krakamp.family.rbcl.lmer)[2,c(3,4,8)])
quant.krakamp.table = rbind(quant.krakamp.table, tidy(quant.krakamp.genus.its.lmer)[2,c(3,4,8)])
quant.krakamp.table = rbind(quant.krakamp.table, tidy(quant.krakamp.genus.rbcl.lmer)[2,c(3,4,8)])
quant.krakamp.table = rbind(quant.krakamp.table, tidy(quant.krakamp.species.its.lmer)[2,c(3,4,8)])
quant.krakamp.table = rbind(quant.krakamp.table, tidy(quant.krakamp.species.rbcl.lmer)[2,c(3,4,8)])

quant.krakamp.table$source = c("family.its", "family.rbcl", "genus.its", "genus.rbcl", "species.its", "species.rbcl")

kable(quant.krakamp.table) %>% kable_styling(bootstrap_options = "striped", full_width = F)
term estimate p.value source
sourcekrak 0.0426100 0.1228240 family.its
sourcekrak 0.0790411 0.0076910 family.rbcl
sourcekrak 0.1432116 0.0000000 genus.its
sourcekrak 0.1344835 0.0000149 genus.rbcl
sourcekrak 0.1266992 0.0000014 species.its
sourcekrak 0.1782535 0.0000000 species.rbcl

Interesting… all models (except for family, using ITS2) show statistically significant differences between amplicon and WGS in the mean value of the residuals. But as far as I can tell from this, it looks like the amplicon data comes out ahead, i.e. the WGS / kraken data have larger mean residuals (worse; we want smaller).

This is interesting because from the WGS-only linear model above, the \(R^2\) values are much higher than for the amplicon data. Then again, these are estimating a slope and an intercept different for each of these that are not slope = 1 and intercept = 0. Potentially because we know that the false positive rates are higher, the false positives could be throwing this off.

would be good to confirm with figures.

6 Figures

6.1 Figure 1

This figure shows the mean proportion and binomial CI of correct taxonomic matches by species and genus. Fig. 1a is by family, Fig. 1b is by genus, and Fig. 1c is by species.

The binomial CI is calculated using the binom.confint function, which requires a vector of the number of success (\(x\)) and a vector of the number of independent trials (\(n\)).

#Create variable "presence" to get total number of independent tests
truepos.krak.family$presence = 1
truepos.krak.genus$presence = 1
truepos.krak.species$presence = 1


#Total the number of taxa correctly identified (x) when grouped by taxa
family_x = truepos.krak.family %>%
  group_by(family) %>%
  summarise(x = sum(qual.family))

genus_x = truepos.krak.genus %>%
  group_by(genus) %>%
  summarise(x = sum(qual.genus))

species_x = truepos.krak.species %>%
  group_by(species) %>%
  summarise(x = sum(qual.species))

#Get the total number of independent tests (n) when grouped by taxa
family_n = truepos.krak.family %>% 
  group_by(family) %>%
  summarise(n = sum(presence))

genus_n = truepos.krak.genus %>% 
  group_by(genus) %>%
  summarise(n = sum(presence))

species_n = truepos.krak.species %>% 
  group_by(species) %>%
  summarise(n = sum(presence))

#Calculate binomial confidence interval using x and n
binomci_family = binom.confint(family_x$x, family_n$n, method="exact")
binomci_species = binom.confint(species_x$x, species_n$n, method="exact")
binomci_genus = binom.confint(genus_x$x, genus_n$n, method="exact")

#Add the taxa names, rename column
binomci_family = cbind(family_x$family, binomci_family)
binomci_genus = cbind(genus_x$genus, binomci_genus)
binomci_species = cbind(species_x$species, binomci_species)

colnames(binomci_family)[1] = "family"
colnames(binomci_genus)[1] = "genus"
colnames(binomci_species)[1] = "species"


#Figure 1A: Family level
fig1a=binomci_family%>%
  ggplot(aes(family,mean))+
  geom_point(position=position_dodge(width=0.3), size=4, alpha=0.6)+
  geom_errorbar(width=0.6, aes(family,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), alpha=0.6, position=position_dodge(width=0.3))+
  xlab("family")+
  ylab("proportion of correct matches")+
   theme_bw()+
  ggtitle("A")+
  theme(axis.text.x=element_text(angle=45,hjust=1))

#Figure 1B: Genus level
fig1b=binomci_genus%>%
  ggplot(aes(genus,mean))+
  geom_point(position=position_dodge(width=0.3), size=4, alpha=0.6)+
  geom_errorbar(width=0.6, aes(genus,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), alpha=0.6, position=position_dodge(width=0.3))+
  xlab("genus")+
  ylab("proportion of correct matches")+
   theme_bw()+
  ggtitle("B")+
  theme(axis.text.x=element_text(angle=45,hjust=1))

#Figure 1C: Species level
fig1c=binomci_species%>%
  ggplot(aes(species,mean))+
  geom_point(position=position_dodge(width=0.3), size=4, alpha=0.6)+
  geom_errorbar(width=0.6, aes(species,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), alpha=0.6, position=position_dodge(width=0.3))+
  xlab("species")+
  ylab("proportion of correct matches")+
   theme_bw()+
  ggtitle("C")+
  theme(axis.text.x=element_text(angle=45,hjust=1))

#Figure 1 panel

ggsave("WGS_fig1a.pdf", plot=fig1a, device="pdf", height=5, width=7, units="in")
ggsave("WGS_fig1b.pdf", plot=fig1b, device="pdf", height=5, width = 7, units="in")
ggsave("WGS_fig1c.pdf", plot=fig1c, device="pdf", height=5, width = 7, units="in")
panel.fig1 = grid.arrange(fig1a, fig1b,fig1c, ncol=1)
ggsave("fig1_combined.jpg", plot=panel.fig1, device="jpeg", height=11, width = 8.5, units="in")
Figure 1

Figure 1

6.2 Figure 2:

This figure shows the proportion of correct taxonomic matchess by species richness for rbcL and ITS2 at the species and genus level. To correctly format the data, the mean and binomial CI of correct taxonomic matches needs to be summarized 3 times: once for sample, once for mix, and once for level of species richness. Otherwise samples with multiple species will get over-represented in terms of the overall means. The integers are tracked at each step and summarized with dplyr. The data is summarized with dplyr twice, once per mix and then once per sample. Then within each level of the factor of interest, the mean and binomial confidence intervals are calculated using binom.confint.

#Summarize the agg dataset first by species richness, mix.ID, and sample. Also calculate pool size for each sample ('n()'), as well as sum # of positive identifications

CI.family.1 = truepos.krak.family %>% 
select(mix.ID, sample, spp.rich, qual.family, question.1, question.2, question.3) %>% group_by(spp.rich, mix.ID, sample) %>%
summarize(pool.size = n(),
  family = sum(qual.family),
# add question.1, question.2, question.3 because those equal to 1 are filtered out in Jamie's figure 3 code
  question.1 = mean(question.1),
  question.2 = mean(question.2),
  question.3 = mean(question.3))

CI.genus.1 = truepos.krak.genus %>% 
select(mix.ID, sample, spp.rich, qual.genus, question.1, question.2, question.3) %>% group_by(spp.rich, mix.ID, sample) %>%
summarize(pool.size = n(),
  genus = sum(qual.genus),
# add question.1, question.2, question.3 because those equal to 1 are filtered out in Jamie's figure 3 code
  question.1 = mean(question.1),
  question.2 = mean(question.2),
  question.3 = mean(question.3))

CI.species.1 = truepos.krak.species %>% 
select(mix.ID, sample, spp.rich, qual.species, question.1, question.2, question.3) %>% group_by(spp.rich, mix.ID, sample) %>%
summarize(pool.size = n(),
  species = sum(qual.species),
# add question.1, question.2, question.3 because those equal to 1 are filtered out in Jamie's figure 3 code
  question.1 = mean(question.1),
  question.2 = mean(question.2),
  question.3 = mean(question.3))

# second step: group_by(spp.rich, mix.ID, pool.size)

CI.family.2 = CI.family.1 %>% group_by(spp.rich, mix.ID, pool.size) %>% 
  summarize(pool.num = n(),
  family = sum(family), 
  question.1 = mean(question.1),
  question.2 = mean(question.2),
  question.3 = mean(question.3)) # %>% 
  # multiply pool size & number to get total number of possibilities of matches
  CI.family.2$n2 = CI.family.2$pool.size * CI.family.2$pool.num
  
CI.genus.2 = CI.genus.1 %>% group_by(spp.rich, mix.ID, pool.size) %>% 
  summarize(pool.num = n(),
  genus = sum(genus), 
  question.1 = mean(question.1),
  question.2 = mean(question.2),
  question.3 = mean(question.3)) # %>% 
  # multiply pool size & number to get total number of possibilities of matches
  CI.genus.2$n2 = CI.genus.2$pool.size * CI.genus.2$pool.num

CI.species.2 = CI.species.1 %>% group_by(spp.rich, mix.ID, pool.size) %>% 
  summarize(pool.num = n(),
  species = sum(species), 
  question.1 = mean(question.1),
  question.2 = mean(question.2),
  question.3 = mean(question.3)) # %>% 
  # multiply pool size & number to get total number of possibilities of matches
  CI.species.2$n2 = CI.species.2$pool.size * CI.species.2$pool.num
  
#Format variables to be factors.  Restrict to mixtures where questions are equal to 1. **Not sure why this is done?  
  
dat.family <- CI.family.2
dat.family$question.1=as.factor(dat.family$question.1)
dat.family$question.2=as.factor(dat.family$question.2)
dat.family$question.3=as.factor(dat.family$question.3)
dat.family$spp.rich=as.factor(dat.family$spp.rich)
#dat.family=filter(dat.family,question.1=="1"|question.2=="1"|question.3=="1")
fig2_family=dat.family%>%
  select(spp.rich, mix.ID, n2, family)

dat.genus <- CI.genus.2
dat.genus$question.1=as.factor(dat.genus$question.1)
dat.genus$question.2=as.factor(dat.genus$question.2)
dat.genus$question.3=as.factor(dat.genus$question.3)
dat.genus$spp.rich=as.factor(dat.genus$spp.rich)
#dat.genus=filter(dat.genus,question.1=="1"|question.2=="1"|question.3=="1")
fig2_genus=dat.genus%>%
  select(spp.rich, mix.ID, n2, genus)

dat.species <- CI.species.2
dat.species$question.1=as.factor(dat.species$question.1)
dat.species$question.2=as.factor(dat.species$question.2)
dat.species$question.3=as.factor(dat.species$question.3)
dat.species$spp.rich=as.factor(dat.species$spp.rich)
#dat.species=filter(dat.species,question.1=="1"|question.2=="1"|question.3=="1")
fig2_species=dat.species%>%
  select(spp.rich, mix.ID, n2, species)

#Convert from wide to long

fig2_long_family = melt(fig2_family, id.vars = c("spp.rich","mix.ID", "n2"))
fig2_long_genus = melt(fig2_genus, id.vars = c("spp.rich","mix.ID", "n2"))
fig2_long_species = melt(fig2_species, id.vars = c("spp.rich","mix.ID", "n2"))

#Subset to species richness

spp.rich_family = fig2_long_family%>%
  filter(substr(variable,1,7)=="family")%>%
  rename(x=value, n=n2)
spp.rich_genus = fig2_long_genus%>%
  filter(substr(variable,1,7)=="genus")%>%
  rename(x=value, n=n2)
spp.rich_species = fig2_long_species%>%
  filter(substr(variable,1,7)=="species")%>%
  rename(x=value, n=n2)

#group by species richness and marker so that all mixtures with richness = 2 are grouped together

spp.rich_family = spp.rich_family %>%
  group_by(spp.rich, variable) %>%
  summarize(n=mean(n),x=mean(x)) %>%
  ungroup()

spp.rich_genus = spp.rich_genus %>%
  group_by(spp.rich, variable) %>%
  summarize(n=mean(n),x=mean(x)) %>%
  ungroup()

spp.rich_species = spp.rich_species %>%
  group_by(spp.rich, variable) %>%
  summarize(n=mean(n),x=mean(x)) %>%
  ungroup()

#Calculate mean and binomial CI

bin.family = binom.confint(spp.rich_family$x, spp.rich_family$n,methods="exact") %>%
  select(-method)

bin.genus = binom.confint(spp.rich_genus$x, spp.rich_genus$n,methods="exact") %>%
  select(-method)

bin.species = binom.confint(spp.rich_species$x, spp.rich_species$n,methods="exact") %>%
  select(-method)

#Merge mean and binomial CI with mixture info

family.all = merge(bin.family, spp.rich_family, by = c("x", "n"))
family.all = unique(family.all)

genus.all = merge(bin.genus, spp.rich_genus, by = c("x", "n"))
genus.all = unique(genus.all)

species.all = merge(bin.species, spp.rich_species, by = c("x", "n"))
species.all = unique(species.all)

#Figure 2A: Family level
fig2a=family.all%>%
  filter(variable=="family")%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(spp.rich,mean))+
  geom_errorbar(aes(spp.rich,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), width=0.2)+
  xlab("species richness")+
  ylab("proportion of correct matches")+
  ylim(0,1)+
  ggtitle("A: Family")+
   theme_bw()

#Figure 2B: Genus level
fig2b=genus.all%>%
  filter(variable=="genus")%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(spp.rich,mean))+
  geom_errorbar(aes(spp.rich,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), width=0.2)+
  xlab("species richness")+
  ylab("proportion of correct matches")+
  ylim(0,1)+
  ggtitle("B: Genus")+
   theme_bw()

#Figure 2A: Species level
fig2c=species.all%>%
  filter(variable=="species")%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(spp.rich,mean))+
  geom_errorbar(aes(spp.rich,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), width=0.2)+
  xlab("species richness")+
  ylab("proportion of correct matches")+
  ylim(0,1)+
  ggtitle("C: Species")+
   theme_bw()

#Create panel for Figure 2
fig2=grid.arrange(fig2a,fig2b,fig2c, nrow=1)
ggsave("fig2_combined.jpg", plot=fig2, device="jpeg", width=169, units="mm")
## Saving 169 x 127 mm image
Figure 2

Figure 2

6.3 Figure 3: quantitative matching by taxon

This figure shows the relationship between the proportion of pollen grains belonging to a particular taxon with the probability of detection (presence/absence) of that taxon in the sequencing reads. Each color belongs to a particular taxon, and each taxon has its own trendline as determined by logistic regression.

fig3_sub_family=truepos.krak.family%>%
  select(mix.ID, family, spp.rich, pollen.grain.proportion, qual.family)

fig3_sub_family$spp.rich=as.factor(fig3_sub_family$spp.rich)

fig3_sub_genus=truepos.krak.genus%>%
  select(mix.ID, genus, spp.rich, pollen.grain.proportion, qual.genus)

fig3_sub_genus$spp.rich=as.factor(fig3_sub_genus$spp.rich)

fig3_sub_species=truepos.krak.species%>%
  select(mix.ID, species, spp.rich, pollen.grain.proportion, qual.species)

fig3_sub_genus$spp.rich=as.factor(fig3_sub_genus$spp.rich)

#Figure 3a: Family level
fig3a=fig3_sub_family%>%
  group_by(family)%>%
  ggplot(aes(pollen.grain.proportion, qual.family, color = family, shape = family))+
  geom_jitter( size=4, alpha=0.4, height=0.05 )+
    geom_smooth(method = "glm", method.args = list(family = "binomial"), se = FALSE, alpha=0.2) +
  ggtitle("A")+
  xlab("proportion of pollen grains in the sample")+
  ylab("probability of detection")+
  theme_bw()+
  theme(legend.key = element_rect(size = 5),
        legend.key.size = unit(1.5, 'lines'))

#Figure 3b: Genus level
fig3b=fig3_sub_genus%>%
  group_by(genus)%>%
  ggplot(aes(pollen.grain.proportion, qual.genus, color = genus, shape = genus))+
  geom_jitter( size=4, alpha=0.4, height=0.05 )+
    geom_smooth(method = "glm", method.args = list(family = "binomial"), se = FALSE, alpha=0.2) +
  ggtitle("B")+
  xlab("proportion of pollen grains in the sample")+
  ylab("probability of detection")+
  theme_bw()+
  theme(legend.key = element_rect(size = 5),
        legend.key.size = unit(1.5, 'lines'))

#Figure 3c: Species level
fig3c=fig3_sub_species%>%
  group_by(species)%>%
  ggplot(aes(pollen.grain.proportion, qual.species, color = species, shape = species))+
  geom_jitter( size=4, alpha=0.4, height=0.05 )+
    geom_smooth(method = "glm", method.args = list(family = "binomial"), se = FALSE, alpha=0.2) +
  ggtitle("C")+
  xlab("proportion of pollen grains in the sample")+
  ylab("probability of detection")+
  theme_bw()+
  theme(legend.key = element_rect(size = 5),
        legend.key.size = unit(1.5, 'lines'))

#Create panel for figure 3
fig3=grid.arrange(fig3a,fig3b,fig3c, nrow=1)
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ggsave("WGS_fig3a.pdf", plot=fig3a, device="pdf", width=7, height=5, units="in")
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ggsave("WGS_fig3b.pdf", plot=fig3b, device="pdf", width=7, height=5, units="in")
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ggsave("WGS_fig3c.pdf", plot=fig3c, device="pdf", width=7, height=5, units="in")
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panel.fig3 = grid.arrange(fig3a, fig3b, fig3c, ncol=1) #  heights = rep(50,3)
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ggsave("fig3_combined.jpg", plot=panel.fig3, device="jpeg", height=8.5, width = 11, units="in")
Figure 3

Figure 3

6.4 Figure 4

This figure shows the quantitative relationship between the proportion of pollen grains and the proportion of reads matching to a particular taxa. There are plots for the species, genus, and family level.

Fortunately, these figures do not require formatting of the dataset beyond what has already been done. The code is fairly self-explanatory.

#Figure 4A: Family level
fig4a=truepos.krak.family%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(pollen.grain.proportion, quant.family, color=family, shape=family), size=4, alpha=0.4, position = "jitter")+
  xlab("proportion of pollen grains in sample")+
  ylab("proportion of reads")+
  geom_abline(size=0.2, alpha=1)+ #line w/ slope 1
  theme_bw()+
  ggtitle("A")+
  scale_shape_manual(values=c(15,16,17,18,0,1,2,5,6))

#Figure 4B: Genus level
fig4b=truepos.krak.genus%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(pollen.grain.proportion, quant.genus, color=genus, shape=genus), size=4, alpha=0.4, position = "jitter")+
  xlab("proportion of pollen grains in sample")+
  ylab("proportion of reads")+
  geom_abline(size=0.2, alpha=1)+ #line w/ slope 1
  theme_bw()+
  ggtitle("B")+
  scale_shape_manual(values=c(15,16,17,18,0,1,2,5,6))

#Figure 4C: Species level
fig4c=truepos.krak.species%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(pollen.grain.proportion, quant.species, color=species, shape=species), size=4, alpha=0.4, position = "jitter")+
  xlab("proportion of pollen grains in sample")+
  ylab("proportion of reads")+
  geom_abline(size=0.2, alpha=1)+ #line w/ slope 1
  theme_bw()+
  ggtitle("C")+
  scale_shape_manual(values=c(15,16,17,18,0,1,2,5,6))


#Figure 4 Panel
ggsave("WGS_fig4a.pdf", fig4a, device="pdf", width=7, height=5, units="in")
ggsave("WGS_fig4b.pdf", fig4b, device="pdf", width=7, height=5, units="in")
ggsave("WGS_fig4c.pdf", fig4c, device="pdf", width=7, height=5, units="in")

# save panel
panel.fig4 = grid.arrange(fig4a, fig4b, fig4c,ncol=1) #  heights = rep(50,3)
ggsave("fig4_combined.jpg", plot=panel.fig4, device="jpeg", height=11, width = 11, units="in")
Figure 4

Figure 4

6.5 figure 5

This figure shows the proportion of correct taxonomic matchess by source (amplicon vs. WGS) at the species, genus, and family level. To correctly format the data, the mean and binomial CI of correct taxonomic matches needs to be summarized 3 times: once for sample, once for mix, and once for source. Otherwise samples with multiple species will get over-represented in terms of the overall means. The integers are tracked at each step and summarized with dplyr. The data is summarized with dplyr twice, once per mix and then once per sample. Then within each level of the factor of interest, the mean and binomial confidence intervals are calculated using binom.confint.

#Summarize the agg dataset first by source, mix.ID, and sample. Also calculate pool size for each sample ('n()'), as well as sum # of positive identifications

CI.krakamp.family.fn.1 = krakamp_family_fn %>% 
select(mix.ID, sample, qual.family, source) %>% group_by(source, mix.ID, sample) %>%
summarize(pool.size = n(),
  family = sum(as.numeric(qual.family)))

CI.krakamp.genus.fn.1 = krakamp_genus_fn %>% 
select(mix.ID, sample, qual.genus, source) %>% group_by(source, mix.ID, sample) %>%
summarize(pool.size = n(),
  genus = sum(as.numeric(qual.genus)))

CI.krakamp.species.fn.1 = krakamp_species_fn %>% 
select(mix.ID, sample, qual.species, source) %>% group_by(source, mix.ID, sample) %>%
summarize(pool.size = n(),
  species = sum(as.numeric(qual.species)))

# second step: group_by(source, mix.ID, pool.size)

CI.krakamp.family.fn.2 = CI.krakamp.family.fn.1 %>% group_by(source, mix.ID, pool.size) %>% 
  summarize(pool.num = n(),
  family = sum(family))
  # multiply pool size & number to get total number of possibilities of matches
  CI.krakamp.family.fn.2$n2 = CI.krakamp.family.fn.2$pool.size * CI.krakamp.family.fn.2$pool.num
  #format source to be factor
  CI.krakamp.family.fn.2$source=as.factor(CI.krakamp.family.fn.2$source)
  
  fig5_family=CI.krakamp.family.fn.2%>%
    select(source, mix.ID, n2, family)
  
CI.krakamp.genus.fn.2 = CI.krakamp.genus.fn.1 %>% group_by(source, mix.ID, pool.size) %>% 
  summarize(pool.num = n(),
  genus = sum(genus))
  # multiply pool size & number to get total number of possibilities of matches
  CI.krakamp.genus.fn.2$n2 = CI.krakamp.genus.fn.2$pool.size * CI.krakamp.genus.fn.2$pool.num
  #format source to be factor
  CI.krakamp.genus.fn.2$source=as.factor(CI.krakamp.genus.fn.2$source)
  
  fig5_genus=CI.krakamp.genus.fn.2%>%
    select(source, mix.ID, n2, genus)

CI.krakamp.species.fn.2 = CI.krakamp.species.fn.1 %>% group_by(source, mix.ID, pool.size) %>% 
  summarize(pool.num = n(),
  species = sum(species))
  # multiply pool size & number to get total number of possibilities of matches
  CI.krakamp.species.fn.2$n2 = CI.krakamp.species.fn.2$pool.size * CI.krakamp.species.fn.2$pool.num
  #format source to be factor
  CI.krakamp.species.fn.2$source=as.factor(CI.krakamp.species.fn.2$source)
  
  fig5_species=CI.krakamp.species.fn.2%>%
    select(source, mix.ID, n2, species)
  
  #Convert from wide to long
  fig5_long_family = melt(fig5_family, id.vars = c("source","mix.ID", "n2"))
  fig5_long_family = fig5_long_family%>%
  rename(x=value, n=n2)
  
  fig5_long_genus = melt(fig5_genus, id.vars = c("source","mix.ID", "n2"))
  fig5_long_genus = fig5_long_genus%>%
  rename(x=value, n=n2)
  
  fig5_long_species = melt(fig5_species, id.vars = c("source","mix.ID", "n2"))
  fig5_long_species = fig5_long_species%>%
  rename(x=value, n=n2)
  
  #group by source
  fig5_long_family = fig5_long_family %>%
    group_by(source) %>%
    summarize(n=mean(n),x=mean(x)) %>%
    ungroup()
  
  fig5_long_genus = fig5_long_genus %>%
    group_by(source) %>%
    summarize(n=mean(n),x=mean(x)) %>%
    ungroup()
  
  fig5_long_species = fig5_long_species %>%
    group_by(source) %>%
    summarize(n=mean(n),x=mean(x)) %>%
    ungroup()
  
  #Calculate mean and binomial CI

  fig5_bin.family = binom.confint(fig5_long_family$x, fig5_long_family$n,methods="exact") %>%
    select(-method)
  
  fig5_bin.genus = binom.confint(fig5_long_genus$x, fig5_long_genus$n,methods="exact") %>%
    select(-method)
  
  fig5_bin.species = binom.confint(fig5_long_species$x, fig5_long_species$n,methods="exact") %>%
    select(-method)
  
  #merge datasets
  
  fig5_family.all = merge(fig5_bin.family, fig5_long_family, by = c("x", "n"))
  fig5_family.all = unique(fig5_family.all)
  
  fig5_genus.all = merge(fig5_bin.genus, fig5_long_genus, by = c("x", "n"))
  fig5_genus.all = unique(fig5_genus.all)
  
  fig5_species.all = merge(fig5_bin.species, fig5_long_species, by = c("x", "n"))
  fig5_species.all = unique(fig5_species.all)
  
#Figure 5A: Family level
fig5a=fig5_family.all%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(source,mean))+
  geom_errorbar(aes(source,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), width=0.2)+
  xlab("source")+
  ylab("proportion of correct matches")+
  ylim(0,1)+
  ggtitle("A")+
   theme_bw()

#Figure 5B: Genus level
fig5b=fig5_genus.all%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(source,mean))+
  geom_errorbar(aes(source,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), width=0.2)+
  xlab("source")+
  ylab("proportion of correct matches")+
  ylim(0,1)+
  ggtitle("B")+
   theme_bw()

#Figure 5C: Species level
fig5c=fig5_species.all%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(source,mean))+
  geom_errorbar(aes(source,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), width=0.2)+
  xlab("source")+
  ylab("proportion of correct matches")+
  ylim(0,1)+
  ggtitle("C")+
   theme_bw()


#Create panel for Figure 5
fig5=grid.arrange(fig5a,fig5b,fig5c, nrow=1)
ggsave("fig5_combined.jpg", plot=fig5, device="jpeg", width=169, units="mm")
## Saving 169 x 127 mm image
Figure 5

Figure 5

6.6 Figure 6

This figure shows the proportion of hits that were false positives. The “false positive” vs. “false negative” variable created in part 3.5 and 3.7 is converted to a numeric binomial variable. The mean and binomial CI of false positive counts are aggregated once by sample, once by mix, and once by source. Data summary and confidence intervals are calculated as in figure 5.

#Create variable called "falsepos" that is equivalent to "type"

all.krak.family$falsepos = all.krak.family$type
all.krak.genus$falsepos = all.krak.genus$type
all.krak.species$falsepos = all.krak.species$type

#Merge ITS and rbcL data
amp_family_allmix = merge(amp_its_family_mix, amp_rbc_family_mix, by=c("mix.ID","taxa","sample"), all.x=T, all.y=T)
amp_genus_allmix = merge(amp_its_genus_mix, amp_rbc_genus_mix, by=c("mix.ID","taxa","sample"), all.x=T, all.y=T)
amp_species_allmix = merge(amp_its_species_mix, amp_rbc_species_mix, by=c("mix.ID","taxa","sample"), all.x=T, all.y=T)

#Create hits variable that sums the hits for rbcL and ITS
amp_family_allmix$hits = rowSums(amp_family_allmix[,c("hits.x","hits.y")], na.rm=T)
amp_genus_allmix$hits = rowSums(amp_genus_allmix[,c("hits.x","hits.y")], na.rm=T)
amp_species_allmix$hits = rowSums(amp_species_allmix[,c("hits.x","hits.y")], na.rm=T)

#Create false positive variable
amp_family_allmix$falsepos = ifelse(!is.na(amp_family_allmix$type.x),amp_family_allmix$type.x,amp_family_allmix$type.y)
amp_genus_allmix$falsepos = ifelse(!is.na(amp_genus_allmix$type.x),amp_genus_allmix$type.x,amp_genus_allmix$type.y)
amp_species_allmix$falsepos = ifelse(!is.na(amp_species_allmix$type.x),amp_species_allmix$type.x,amp_species_allmix$type.y)

#Rename variable "taxa"
setnames(amp_family_allmix, "taxa", "family")
setnames(amp_genus_allmix, "taxa","genus")
setnames(amp_species_allmix, "taxa", "species")

all.krak.family$source = "K"
amp_family_allmix$source = "A"
all.krak.genus$source = "K"
amp_genus_allmix$source = "A"
all.krak.species$source = "K"
amp_species_allmix$source = "A"

#Merge amplicon and kraken data 
krakamp_family_fp <- rbind(all.krak.family[,c("mix.ID", "family", "sample", "falsepos", "source", "hits")], amp_family_allmix[,c("mix.ID","family","sample", "falsepos", "source", "hits")])
krakamp_genus_fp <- rbind(all.krak.genus[,c("mix.ID", "genus", "sample", "falsepos", "source", "hits")], amp_genus_allmix[,c("mix.ID","genus","sample", "falsepos", "source", "hits")])
krakamp_species_fp <- rbind(all.krak.species[,c("mix.ID", "species", "sample", "falsepos", "source", "hits")], amp_species_allmix[,c("mix.ID","species","sample", "falsepos", "source", "hits")])

#Summarize the agg dataset first by source and mix ID

CI.krakamp.family.fp = krakamp_family_fp %>% 
select(mix.ID, falsepos, source, hits) %>% group_by(source, mix.ID) %>%
summarize(total.hits = sum(hits),
          fp.hits = sum(hits[falsepos=="false_pos"]))

CI.krakamp.genus.fp = krakamp_genus_fp %>% 
select(mix.ID, falsepos, source, hits) %>% group_by(source, mix.ID) %>%
summarize(total.hits = sum(hits),
          fp.hits = sum(hits[falsepos=="false_pos"]))

CI.krakamp.species.fp = krakamp_species_fp %>% 
select(mix.ID, falsepos, source, hits) %>% group_by(source, mix.ID) %>%
summarize(total.hits = sum(hits),
          fp.hits = sum(hits[falsepos=="false_pos"]))

#Convert from wide to long
fig6_long_family = melt(CI.krakamp.family.fp, id.vars = c("source","mix.ID", "total.hits"))
  fig6_long_family = fig6_long_family%>%
  rename(x=value, n=total.hits)
  
fig6_long_genus = melt(CI.krakamp.genus.fp, id.vars = c("source","mix.ID", "total.hits"))
  fig6_long_genus = fig6_long_genus%>%
  rename(x=value, n=total.hits)
  
fig6_long_species = melt(CI.krakamp.species.fp, id.vars = c("source","mix.ID", "total.hits"))
  fig6_long_species = fig6_long_species%>%
  rename(x=value, n=total.hits)

#group by source
 fig6_long_family = fig6_long_family %>%
    group_by(source) %>%
    summarize(n=mean(n),x=mean(x)) %>%
    ungroup()
  
fig6_long_genus = fig6_long_genus %>%
    group_by(source) %>%
    summarize(n=mean(n),x=mean(x)) %>%
    ungroup()
  
fig6_long_species = fig6_long_species %>%
    group_by(source) %>%
    summarize(n=mean(n),x=mean(x)) %>%
    ungroup()

 #Calculate mean and binomial CI

fig6_bin.family = binom.confint(fig6_long_family$x, fig6_long_family$n,methods="exact") %>%
    select(-method)
  
fig6_bin.genus = binom.confint(fig6_long_genus$x, fig6_long_genus$n,methods="exact") %>%
    select(-method)
  
fig6_bin.species = binom.confint(fig6_long_species$x, fig6_long_species$n,methods="exact") %>%
    select(-method)
  
  #merge datasets
  
  fig6_family.all = merge(fig6_bin.family, fig6_long_family, by = c("x", "n"))
  fig6_family.all = unique(fig6_family.all)
  
  fig6_genus.all = merge(fig6_bin.genus, fig6_long_genus, by = c("x", "n"))
  fig6_genus.all = unique(fig6_genus.all)
  
  fig6_species.all = merge(fig6_bin.species, fig6_long_species, by = c("x", "n"))
  fig6_species.all = unique(fig6_species.all)
  
#Figure 6A: Family level
fig6a=fig6_family.all%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(source,mean))+
  geom_errorbar(aes(source,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), width=0.2)+
  xlab("source")+
  ylab("proportion of false positives")+
  ylim(0,1)+
  ggtitle("A")+
   theme_bw()

#Figure 6B: Genus level
fig6b=fig6_genus.all%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(source,mean))+
  geom_errorbar(aes(source,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), width=0.2)+
  xlab("source")+
  ylab("proportion of false positives")+
  ylim(0,1)+
  ggtitle("B")+
   theme_bw()

#Figure 6C: Species level
fig6c=fig6_species.all%>%
  ggplot()+
  geom_point(aes(source,mean))+
  geom_errorbar(aes(source,ymin=lower, ymax=upper), width=0.2)+
  xlab("source")+
  ylab("proportion of false positives")+
  ylim(0,1)+
  ggtitle("C")+
   theme_bw()


#Create panel for Figure 6
fig6=grid.arrange(fig6a,fig6b,fig6c, nrow=1)
ggsave("fig6_combined.jpg", plot=fig6, device="jpeg", width=169, units="mm")
## Saving 169 x 127 mm image
Figure 6

Figure 6